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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0166 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | A.1. Southern Politics: Bass-DeVries Interviews |
Project description | Interviews, 1973-1975, conducted by Jack Solomon Bass and Walter De Vries with political leaders, journalists, editors, party officials, political scientists, campaign directors, union officials, and civil rights leaders from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as part of a study of politics in the South, 1945-1974. |
Date | February 1, 1974 |
Interviewee | Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. |
Interviewee occupation | Legislators |
Interviewee DOB | 1902 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Bass, Jack. |
Abstract | Discussion of political changes in South Carolina since 1948; Discussion of industrial change in the South; Education and race; the Democratic party in the South since 1948; discussion of Thurmond's shift from the Democratic party to the Republican party; discussion of the factors in Thurmond's decision to run for U.S. Senate; Thurmond's relationship with Richard Nixon; Thurmond discusses his relations with blacks; discussion of Victoria Lee's support of Thurmond. |
Subject Topical |
South Carolina--Race relations. South Carolina--Politics and government. |
Citation | Interview with Strom Thurmond by Jack Bass, 1 February 1974. A-0166 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | A0166_Transcript |