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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0281 |
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 5, 1974 |
Interviewee | Workman, William D. (William Douglas), 1914-1990. |
Interviewee occupation |
Journalists Politicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1914 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Journalist and 1962 Republican candidate for the US Senate William D. Workman reflects on the rise of the Republican party in the South and his attempt to unseat Olin Johnston. He discusses Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrat movement and southern politics in the Civil Rights era. |
Subject Topical | South Carolina--Politics and government. |
Subject Name |
Republican Party (S.C.) Workman, William D. (William Douglas), 1914-1990. |
Citation | Interview with William D. (Douglas) Workman by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 5 February 1974. A-0281 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. | 04007_A0281_1_1 |