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SOHP Home > The SOHP Archives
The SOHP Archives
The Southern Oral History Program performs the vital task of recording
and preserving research interviews for future generations. Our ever-expanding
collection, which includes some 4,000 interviews recorded since 1973,
is
maintained in the University's Southern
Historical Collection, the country's
foremost repository for research materials on the American South.
The Southern Historical Collection also provides a complete
finding
aid for the Southern Oral History Program Collection and a new online
finding aid allows for targeted searching. Component subsections
of the SOHP Collection include:
Series A. Southern Politics
Series B. Individual Biographies
Series C. Notable North Carolinians
Series D. Rural Electrification
Series E. Labor
Series F. Fellowship of Southern Churchmen
Series G. Southern Women
Series H. Piedmont Industrialization
Series I. Business History
Series J. Legal Professions
Series K. Southern Communities
Series L. University of North Carolina
Series M. Black High School Principals
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Series O. Foundation History
Series P. The Press and the Civil Rights Movement (in process)
Series Q. African American Life and Culture
Series R. Special Research Projects
Series S. Center for Creative Leadership
Series U. The Long Civil Rights Movement: The South Since the 1960s
Series V. The Hayti Spectrum: Documenting Negro Life of the 1920s,
'30s, and '40s in Durham, N.C. |
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Selections from
the SOHP Archives (audio and transcripts)
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Blue, Daniel
T.
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1/19/96
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72 mins
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Daniel T. Blue, Jr.,
one of North Carolina's most significant political leaders of recent
decades, was the General Assembly's first-ever African American
Speaker, gaining that office during the 1991-92 and 1993-94 legislative
terms. Here he discusses the evolution of black political activity
in NC during the late 1960s and early 1970s, his later political
victories, the GOP's resurgence, and other issues. (Interviewed
by Joseph Mosnier. Part 1: 46 mins. Part 2: 26 mins.)
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Carter, Jimmy
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undated '73
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80 mins
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Carter shares his views
on race in southern politics and two-party politics in the South.
He also discusses a variety of other subjects including integration,
national defense, party fundraising and religious conservatism.
(Interviewed by Jack Bass and Walter DeVries. Part 1: 49 mins. Part
2: 31 mins.)
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Clayton, Eva
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5/30/95
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79 mins
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Eva M. Clayton, elected
to Congress in Nov. 1992, was one of two African-Americans elected
to the U.S. House from North Carolina in that year, a first for
the state in the twentieth century. Long active in the civil rights
struggle, Clayton had run for Congress as far back as 1968. Here
she discusses the evolution of black political activity in North
Carolina since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965.
(Interviewed by Joseph Mosnier. Part 1: 46 mins. Part 2: 33 mins.)
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Clinton, Bill
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6/15/74
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60 mins
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The then twenty-seven
year-old University of Arkansas law professor and Congressional
candidate discusses his run for Congress and his recent work on
the McGovern campaign. He also shares his views on how to get Arkansas
votes and his analyses of Arkansas politicians such as Orval Faubus,
Dale Bumpers, and William Fulbright. (Interviewed by Jack Bass and
Walter DeVries. Part 1: 46 mins. Part 2: 14 mins.)
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Gore, Albert
Sr.
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10/24/76
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14 mins
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The Tennessee senator
recalls the Dixiecrat movement of 1948 and its after effects on
Southern Democratic politics in general and Tennessee in particular.
(Interviewed by Dewey Grantham. 14 mins.)
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Faubus, Orval
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6/14/74
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94 mins
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Faubus discusses his
and his father's political philosophies, gives his own account of
the Little Rock integration crisis and the state of race relations
in Arkansas in the 1950s, and recounts changes in Arkansas politics
in the previous twenty-five years. (Interviewed by Jack Bass and
Walter DeVries. Part 1: 47 mins. Part 2: 47 mins.)
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Hawke, John
Russell
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12/3/96
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139 mins
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John Russell ("Jack")
Hawke, has been a key player in North Carolina Republican Party
politics for thirty years. Here Hawke discusses the complex, shifting
relationship between the NC GOP and the Congressional Club; his
ties to Gov. Jim Martin; his service from 1987 to 1995 as state
GOP chair; political redistricting; and factors explaining the broad
political realignment in favor of the GOP across the last several
decades. (Interviewed by Joseph Mosnier. Part 1: 46 mins. Part 2:
47 mins. Part 3: 46 mins.)
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Henry, Aaron
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4/2/74
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87 mins
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The Mississippi Civil
Rights activist provides a historical perspective on race and racism
in Mississippi, and discusses events such as voter registration
drives, school desegregation, and the assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr. He also shares his thoughts on political figures ranging
from Charles Evers to Richard Nixon and Strom Thurmond. (Interview
by Jack Bass. Part 1: 47 mins. Part 2: 40 mins.)
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Franklin, John
Hope
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7/27/90
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59 mins
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Franklin recalls his
undergraduate days and the early years of his career at Fisk University,
and Nashville's racial climate at the time. The prominent African-American
historian also reminisces about his relationships with white Southern
moderates and liberals of the pre-Civil Rights period; and recounts
specific professional breakthroughs, such as his election as the
first African-American president of the Southern Historical Association.
(Interviewed by John Egerton. Part 1: 46 mins. Part 2: 13 mins.)
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Faircloth, Lauch
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3/2/99
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95 mins
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Sen. Duncan MacLauchlan
"Lauch" Faircloth, once a conservative Democrat who served Gov.
Jim Hunt as state commerce secretary, abandoned the Democratic Party
in 1991 and the following year defeated incumbent U.S. Senator Terry
Sanford. Here Faircloth reviews his public activities from the 1950s
through the early 1980s, focusing particularly on his tenure on
the state highway commission and as state Secretary of Commerce.
(Interviewed by Joseph Mosnier. Part 1: 48 mins. Part 2: 47 mins.)
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The Southern Oral History Program
Center for the Study of the American South
Love House and Hutchins Forum
410 East Franklin St., CB# 9127, UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127
(919) 962-0455
info@sohp.org
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