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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0264 |
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 11, 1974 |
Interviewee | Bessinger, Maurice. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Businessman and 1974 gubernatorial candidate Maurice Bessinger discusses his background and his motivations for getting into politics, and the state of the South Carolina political scene. Running as an independent, he reflects on his Christian conversion, his former stance as a strict segregationist, his aims for his campaign, and the possible fallout of the Watergate scandal on the Republican Party. |
Subject Topical | South Carolina--Politics and government. |
Subject Name | Bessinger, Maurice. |
Citation | Interview with Maurice Bessinger by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 11 February 1974. A-0264 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_A0264_1_1 |