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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0270 |
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 | March 3, 1975 |
Interviewee | Johnson, I. S. Leevy. |
Interviewee occupation |
Attorneys Business owners Politicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1942 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Columbia, S.C. attorney, funeral home owner, and former state legislator I.S. Leevy Johnson reflects on his life and career and the rise in prominence of blacks in government and particularly in the General Assembly. |
Subject Topical |
African American politicians--South Carolina. South Carolina--Politics and government. African Americans--South Carolina. |
Subject Name | Johnson, I. S. Leevy. |
Citation | Interview with I.S. Leevy Johnson by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 3 March 1975. A-0270 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_A0270_1_1 |