Oral history interview with Herman Talmadge, November 8, 1990
Subtitle: interview A-347, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Talmadge, Betty, interviewee; Egerton, John, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Governors; Political parties; Politics and government; Race relations; School integration; Segregation; Democratic Party (Ga.); Republican Party (Ga.)
Other titles: Interview A-347, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Herman Talmadge, November 8, 1990; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Herman Talmadge served as Georgia's Democratic governor from 1948 to 1955 (and a brief stint in 1947), and as that state's senator from 1957 to 1981. In this interview, he shares his opinions on integration and race relations in Georgia. Talmadge, who opposed integration, claims that he did so to avoid tensions. He maintains that had the federal government stayed out of the South, states like Georgia would have integrated slowly but surely and with significantly less strife.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 8, 2007).

Interview participants: Herman Talmadge, interviewee; Mrs. Talmadge, interviewee; John Egerton, interviewer.

Duration: 00:50:19.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-347, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jovita Flynn. Original transcript: 29 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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