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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0408 |
Restrictions | Permission from Bennett required to read, listen to, or quote from interview. |
Project | A.3. Southern Politics: North Carolina Politics |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1997, aimed at understanding how North Carolinians have dealt with post-Great Depression changes. Overarching themes are the realignment in North Carolina party politics and the Republican reemergence, the evolution of African American political activity since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the evolution of women's political activity since the 1960s, and the centrality of cultural and social politics in the state's political contests and debates. |
Date | November 6, 1995 |
Interviewee | Bennett, Thomas S., 1936- |
Interviewee occupation |
Public officers Politicians Attorneys |
Interviewee DOB | 1934 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Mosnier, Joseph. |
Abstract | Thomas S. Bennett was an important figure in the North Carolina Republican Party in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as a legislator and as state Party chair. He describes his background and his friendship with Jim Holshouser, before discussing his decision to become involved in politics, his two terms in the House, the Civil Rights movement and the leadership of Holshouser and Jim Gardner in reviving the Republican Party in North Carolina. |
Subject Topical |
North Carolina--Politics and government. Carteret County (N.C.)--Politics and government. |
Subject Name |
Democratic Party (N.C.) Republican Party (N.C.) Bennett, Thomas S., 1936- Gardner, James Carson, 1933- Holshouser, James E. |
Citation | Interview with Thomas S. Bennett by Joseph Mosnier, 6 November 1996. A-0408 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | A-0408 |