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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0278 |
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 | February 19, 1974 |
Interviewee | Waring, Thomas. |
Interviewee occupation | Editors |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Thomas Waring, former editor of Charleston's News and Courier newspaper, discusses the importance of Strom Thurmond to the Republican Party and reflects at length on his uncle, Judge J. Waties Waring, and the reaction in Charleston to the Warings after his historic 1948 decision opening the Democratic Party primary to black voters. |
Subject Topical |
South Carolina--Politics and government. Civil rights movements--South Carolina. |
Subject Name |
Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968. |
Citation | Interview with Thomas Waring by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 19 February 1974. A-0278 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_A0278_1_1 |