Oral history interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978
Subtitle: interview B-0034, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, 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: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Civil rights workers; Civil rights movements; African Americans; Civil rights; Segregation; Race relations; Students; Southern Regional Council; University of South Carolina
Other titles: Interview B-0034, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Marion Wright describes his beliefs about racial justice and his membership in the Southern Regional Council (SRC). Wright was one of a group of white southerners who sought to tackle the entrenched racism of the 20th-century South. As a member of the SRC, Wright sought to end legal segregation, although he and other members were sensitive to pushing for too much change too quickly. The group also stayed off the streets as protest mounted, seeking to maintain its authority as well as its tax exempt status. As the civil rights movement reached new beginnings in the 1950s and 1960s, the SRC faded. This interview is a portrait of a civil rights leader in the era before the movement was defined by direct action.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 25, 2008).

Interview participants: Marion Wright, interviewee; Jacquelyn Hall, interviewer.

Duration: 01:43:13.

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.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series B, Individual biographies, interview B-0034, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 47 p.

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

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