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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0159 |
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 | January 3, 1974 |
Interviewee | Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James), 1921- |
Interviewee occupation | Politicians |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Bass, Jack. |
Abstract | Discussion of Perry's decision not to run for Congress in 1968; 1974 race for Congress; black politics in South Carolina; unified black leadership; black political organization; decline of the black middle man; black caucus; buying the black vote; manners in South Carolina; changes in the south; white attitudes toward race relations. |
Subject Topical |
South Carolina--Race relations. South Carolina--Politics and government. African American politicians--South Carolina. |
Citation | Interview with Matthew J. (James) Perry by Jack Bass, 3 January 1974. A-0159 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-0159_1_1 |