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Interview no. | A-0343 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | A.2. Southern Politics: Southern Liberalism |
Project description | Interviews, 1990-1991, conducted by John Egerton for a book on the post-World War II era as a time that presented opportunities for positive action on civil rights. Interviews focus on interviewees' careers, 1945-1950 and their reactions to Egerton's thesis about the time period. Frequently addressed topics include the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt, the University of North Carolina and Frank Porter Graham, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, and the Brown decision. |
Date | April 13, 1990 |
Interviewee | Collins, LeRoy. |
Interviewee occupation | Governors |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Egerton, John. |
Abstract | Pages: 1-2: Election to House of Representatives, 1935; election to US Senate, 1941. 3-4: Actions as Governor in the late 1950s; public support for his progressive positions; his support for the sit-in mvmt in FL 5-14: School system in FL and his work to improve it in the late 1930s; belief in legisl change in race issues; race issue in FL; lynching cases in FL. 15-19: Dixiecrats and reasons that FL stayed out of that mvmt; Egerton's thesis; poll tax 19-23: 1950 election; reaction to the Brown decision; belief about responsibility to serve all people. |
Subject Topical |
Florida--Politics and government. Florida--Race relations. Lynching--Florida. School integration--Florida. |
Citation | Interview with LeRoy Collins by John Egerton, 13 April 1990. A-0343 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_A0343_1_1 |