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Object Description
Interview no. | B-0028 |
Restrictions | Closed. No release form received. |
Project | B.1. Individual Biographies: General |
Project description | Biographical interviews, 1962-1983, aimed at balancing the lack of personal letters and diaries, which are becoming increasingly scarce in the public record. Interviewees include educators, business leaders, political activists, professional workers, authors, artists, homemakers, tobacco workers, domestic servants, and others in North Carolina and the southern region. |
Date | April 26, 1976 |
Interviewee | Rainey, Lawrence. |
Interviewee occupation | Police |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Reston, James, 1941- |
Abstract | Jobs from end of term as sheriff (1/68) to present; being hired by police department in Franklin, Kentucky, and NAACP protests and national media coverage; CBS movie based on civil rights incident in Neshoba County, its portrayal of the sheriff, and its impact of Rainey; legal grounds for lawsuit against CBS and FBI; incident in Neshoba where civil rights workers were killed (Cheney-Schwerner-Goodman); first trial in October, 1967; differences in attitudes toward civil rights in the early sixties as at present; lawsuit now for damage incurred as a result of movie. |
Subject Topical |
Southern States--Race relations. Law enforcement--North Carolina. |
Citation | Interview with Lawrence Rainey by James Reston, 26 April 1976. B-0028 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | B-0028 |