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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0407 |
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 16, 1996 |
Interviewee | Shaw, Robert G., 1924- |
Interviewee occupation |
Public officers Politicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1924 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Mosnier, Joseph. |
Abstract | Robert G. Shaw has been a key insider and leader in the North Carolina Republican Party since the 1970s. A lifelong “moderate” Republican, he discusses the revival of the party in the 1970s after the disaster of the Watergate Affair and the contributing factors to its rise, the roles played by disparate figures such as Jim Holshouser and Jesse Helms, his role as the N.C. Republican Party Chair and as a representative himself in the state Assembly, and race and gender in North Carolina politics. The interview contains a humorous anecdote of how he once mistook Cary Grant for a US senator. |
Subject Topical |
North Carolina--Politics and government. Women in politics--North Carolina. |
Subject Name |
Democratic Party (N.C.) Hunt, James B., 1937- Republican Party (N.C.) Helms, Jesse. Shaw, Robert G., 1924- Holshouser, James E. Dole, Robert J., 1923- |
Citation | Interview with Robert G. Shaw by Joseph Mosnier, 16 February 1996. A-0407 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | A-0407 |