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Interview no. | A-0367 |
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 | July 12, 1990 |
Interviewee | Wyatt, Wilson W. (Wilson Watkins), 1905-1996. |
Interviewee occupation |
Mayors Attorneys |
Interviewee DOB | 1905 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Egerton, John. |
Abstract | Lawyer and former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky. Begins by discussing Kentucky's role as being neither in the South or the North which made it more objective regarding Civil Rights. Some focus on the Day Law which prohibited integration and the reactions of the University officials to absolving this ruling. A lot of emphasis placed on the beginning of desegregation in Kentucky, and the impact of the changing leadership in the South during the late 1940s to a more conservative governing body. |
Subject Topical |
Civil rights--Kentucky. School integration--Kentucky. |
Citation | Interview with Wilson W. (Watkins) Wyatt by John Egerton, 12 July 1990. A-0367 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_A0367_1_1 |