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Interview no. | A-0348 |
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 10, 1990 |
Interviewee | Ray, Edgar, 1911- |
Interviewee occupation | Journalists |
Interviewee DOB | 1911 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Egerton, John. |
Abstract | His presidency of the Tampa Urban League; the segregated educational system of Macon, GA, which he describes as "living up to separate and equal"; editorialship of the Tampa Times newspaper; white liberalism/radicalism in the South; participation in "Voting Restrictions in the Thirteen Southern States--A Report by the Committee of Editors and Writers of the South" published 1944; more "complicated" segregation in Tampa; Cubans in Tampa and their racial identity as "white" despite skin tone; busing as further dividing the races; how prejudice is engrained in many white Southerners from childhood; Mark Ethridge; Willie Snow; W.T. Henderson, owner of Macon's paper the Telegraph (This abstract covers the SOHP transcript, which features only select excerpts from the full interview.) |
Subject Topical |
School integration--Georgia. Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Georgia. Macon (Ga.)--Race relations. |
Subject Name | Southern Regional Council. |
Citation | Interview with Edgar Ray by John Egerton, 10 April 1990. A-0348 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_A0348_1_1 |