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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0204 |
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 12, 1974 |
Interviewee | Dabney, Virginius, 1901-1995. |
Interviewee occupation | Editors |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Transformation of Virginia politics since Byrd machine was destroyed; evaluation of Mills Godwin as governor; amendment of Virgina's constitution; Henry Howell and big business; effect of Watergate on Republicans in Virginia; Byrd's reaction to Brown vs. Board of Education; influence of Colgate Darden during this period; business community and desegregation battle hurting Virginia's "image". |
Subject Topical |
Press and politics--Virginia. Virginia--Politics and government. School integration--Virginia. |
Citation | Interview with Virginius Dabney by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 12 March 1974. A-0204 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. | A-0204_1_1 |