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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0310 |
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 | April 5, 1976 |
Interviewee | Carter, Rex Lyle. |
Interviewee occupation |
Public officers Politicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1925 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Glass, Brent D. |
Abstract | Rex Lyle Carter talks of his rural upbringing in a mill village in South Carolina, his education, his career in law and in state politics as a representative of a largely white, middle-class constituency. He discusses the conservatism of politics in South Carolina, some of the leading figures he has been involved with over the years, and his support for desegregation in the 1970s. |
Subject Topical |
South Carolina--Race relations. Labor unions--Political activity. South Carolina--Politics and government. |
Subject Name | Democratic Party (S.C.) |
Citation | Interview with Rex Lyle Carter by Brent D. Glass, 5 April 1976. A-0310 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_A0310_1_1 |