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Interview no. | B-0015 |
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 | May 1, 1976 |
Interviewee | Clark, Jim. |
Interviewee occupation | Police |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Reston, James, 1941- |
Abstract | Jim Clark, sheriff of Dallas County, Ala. from 1955-1966, recounts some of his experiences during that period in this 1976 interview. He is defensive of his role as a law enforcement official during the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965, and argues that he was merely upholding the law. He gives several examples of what he believes was bad or deceitful behavior of civil rights activists. Clark is very resentful of the way he was shown in the media and of Wilson Baker, his rival for the position of sheriff, whom he portrays as being of dubious character. |
Subject Name |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Administration. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students. |
Citation | Interview with Jim Clark by James Reston, 1 May 1976. B-0015 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. | B0015_Audio_1 |