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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0417 |
Restrictions | Permission from interviewee required to read, listen to, or quote from this interview. |
Project | A.3. Southern Politics: North Carolina Politics |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1997, aimed at understanding how North Carolinians have dealt with post-Great Depression changes. Overarching themes are the realignment in North Carolina party politics and the Republican reemergence, the evolution of African American political activity since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the evolution of women's political activity since the 1960s, and the centrality of cultural and social politics in the state's political contests and debates. |
Date | November 2, 1996 |
Interviewee | DeLapp, Simeon A. |
Interviewee occupation | Public officers |
Interviewee DOB | 1943 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Mosnier, Joseph. |
Abstract | Simeon DeLapp, Jr. has been a conservative politician and activist in North Carolina since the late 1970s, following in the footsteps of his father. He discusses his background and memories of his father; his work as a director of various Republican campaigns in the 1980s; faith, race and politics; Jesse Helms and the Congressional Club, including their later split; his views; and his appointment to a position of leadership within the Christian Coalition and his views on its purpose and values. |
Subject Topical |
North Carolina--Politics and government. North Carolina--Race relations. |
Subject Name |
Republican Party (N.C.) Helms, Jesse. DeLapp, Sim Alexander, 1943- Wrenn, Carter. Congressional Club (Washington, D.C.) DeLapp, Simeon A. Finkelstein, Arthur. Mizell, Wilmer D. |
Citation | Interview with Simeon A. DeLapp by Joseph Mosnier, 2 November 1996. A-0417 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | A-0417 |