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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0422 |
Restrictions | Permission from interviewee required to read, listen to, or quote from this 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 | September 27, 1996 |
Interviewee | Wrenn, Carter. |
Interviewee occupation | Directors, NGOs and institutes |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Mosnier, Joseph. |
Abstract | R.E. Carter Wrenn, longtime director of the Congressional Club, describes his background and his political views, before discussing the Club in its early years, its ties to Ronald Reagan and the key role it played in his first presidential campaign. He talks about the Club’s activities and tactics, including its mailers, the power of electronic media, and its effective control of the Republican Party in the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
Subject Topical |
North Carolina--Politics and government. North Carolina--Race relations. |
Subject Name |
Republican Party (N.C.) Helms, Jesse. Reagan, Ronald. Wrenn, Carter. Congressional Club (Washington, D.C.) Ellis, Tom. East, John P. |
Citation | Interview with Carter Wrenn by Joseph Mosnier, 27 September 1996. A-0422 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | A-0422 |