Oral history interview with Hodding Carter, April 1, 1974
Subtitle: interview A-0100, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Bass, Jack, interviewer; De Vries, Walter, 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; Politics and government; Race relations; African Americans; Violence against; African American politicians; Racism; Press and politics; Civil rights; School integration; Republican Party (Miss.)
Other titles: Interview A-0100, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Hodding Carter, April 1, 1974; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Noted journalist Hodding Carter describes the change in Mississippi politics from the virulent racism of the 1960s to the relative moderation of the 1970s. Carter discusses a lot of the minutiae of Mississippi politics that might be confusing to researchers not intimately familiar with the state's political history, but offers many insightful reflections on the power of race in a state that emerged hobbled from the 1960s.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 23, 2007).

Interview participants: Hodding Carter, interviewee; Jack Bass, interviewer; Walter De Vries, interviewer.

Duration: 01:36:09.

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 Aaron Smithers.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 135.1 kilobytes, 176 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0100, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Linda Killen. Original transcript: 36 p.

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

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