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Object Description
Interview no. | B-0077 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
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 | August 21, 1975 |
Interviewee | Horan, Marvin. |
Interviewee occupation | Religious leaders |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Longan, William. |
Abstract | Marvin Horan, minister in Kanawha County, W.Va., discusses the movement against certain textbooks in the county schools schools, of which he is a leading member. He rebuts criticism made of the movement, particularly that of Douglas Stump (see interview B-0080 below), and dismisses the violent incidents that occurred during the controversy as irrelevant. He sees the movement in explicitly religious and patriotic terms, believing that they have a duty to uphold the values and beliefs of the area. He also mentions the external interest the issue has gained and the support he and his fellow protestors have received outside the county and state. |
Subject Topical |
Prohibited books--West Virginia. Education--West Virginia--Charleston. West Virginia--Race relations. |
Citation | Interview with Marvin Horan by William Longan, 21 August 1975. B-0077 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | B-0077 |