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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0403 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | A.3. Southern Politics: North Carolina Politics |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1997, aimed at understanding how North Carolinians have dealt with post-Great Depression changes. Overarching themes are the realignment in North Carolina party politics and the Republican reemergence, the evolution of African American political activity since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the evolution of women's political activity since the 1960s, and the centrality of cultural and social politics in the state's political contests and debates. |
Date | February 9, 1996 |
Interviewee | Nelson, Michael R., 1963- |
Interviewee occupation | Mayors |
Interviewee DOB | 1963 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Mosnier, Joseph. |
Abstract | Michael R. Nelson, mayor of Carrboro, N.C., was elected as North Carolina’s first openly gay mayor in 1995. He discusses his background, his involvement in gay and Democratic politics in the state; Joseph Herzenberg and his campaigns in local politics; gay/lesbian, women’s, and African-American politics in North Carolina; the leadership of Bill Clinton; and the effect of Jesse Helms as an opponent of gay and liberal political organizations. |
Subject Topical |
North Carolina--Politics and government. Carrboro (N.C.)--Politics and government. Gay rights--North Carolina. Gays--North Carolina. |
Subject Name |
Hunt, James B., 1937- Nelson, Michael R., 1963- |
Citation | Interview with Michael R. Nelson by Joseph Mosnier, 9 February 1996. A-0403 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | A-0403 |