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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0382 |
Restrictions | Permission from Holshouser required for quotation. |
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 10, 1995 |
Interviewee | Holshouser, James E. |
Interviewee occupation | Governors |
Interviewee DOB | 1934 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Mosnier, Joseph. |
Abstract | James E. Holshouser, Jr. was a moderate Republican politician and governor of North Carolina from 1973-1977. The interview concentrates mainly on the re-emergence of the Republican Party as a political force in North Carolina from the 1970s onward, with special attention paid to Holshouser’s term as governor, the growth of the more conservative wing of the Republican Party, and the evolution of women’s and African-Americans’ political participation in North Carolina since the mid-1960s. |
Subject Topical | North Carolina--Politics and government. |
Subject Name | Republican Party (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with James E. Holshouser by Joseph Mosnier, 10 November 1995. A-0382 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | A-0382 |