Oral history interview with J. Carlton Fleming, [date unknown]
Subtitle: interview B-0068, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Moye, William T., 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; Civic leaders; Metropolitan government; Politics and government; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Charter Commission
Other titles: Interview B-0068, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with J. Carlton Fleming, [date unknown]; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: J. Carlton Fleming, who was on a Chamber of Commerce committee pushing for consolidation in Charlotte, NC, in the 1960s, tries to explain the demise of the issue in this interview. Fleming believes that consolidation failed because of the process: city bureaucracy made the issue too complex for Charlotte residents to understand, let alone support.. Fleming also downplays the role that race played in the process, arguing that busing did not affect the debate and that the main culprit was the political process.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 24, 2008).

Interview participants: J. Carlton Fleming, interviewee; Bill Moye, interviewer.

Duration: 00:40:13.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill 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 Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series B, Individual biographies, interview B-0068, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 20 p.

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

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