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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0169 |
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 1, 1974 |
Interviewee | Brock, William Emerson, 1930- |
Interviewee occupation | Legislators |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Discussion of the Republican party in Tennessee; major state offices held by Republicans; Brock's history in the Republican party; Brock's role in organizing the Republican part; problems involved in organization; how Senator Baker has fit into the party; conflicts and disagreements in the party over the past 14 years; effect of Watergate on the party; changes in the South over the past 25 years, economics; five categories of Republicans in the South. |
Subject Topical |
Southern States--Politics and government. Tennessee--Politics and government. |
Subject Name | Republican Party (Tenn.) |
Citation | Interview with William Emerson Brock by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 1 February 1974. A-0169 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-0169_1_1 |