Oral history interview with Rita Jackson Samuels, April 30, 1974
Subtitle: interview A-0077, 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; African American women; Women political activists; Women; Political activity; Politics and government; African American politicians
Other titles: Interview A-0077, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Rita Jackson Samuels, April 30, 1974; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Rita Jackson Samuels, Coordinator of the Governor's Council on Human Relations in Atlanta, GA, offers her thoughts on the changing racial dynamics of her home state. She gives the most attention to measuring the progress of African Americans in Georgia during her tenure and that of Governor Jimmy Carter. She also discusses at length the installation of a portrait of Martin Luther King in the state capitol, a move which she initiated, and describes its symbolic importance.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 6, 2007).

Interview participants: Rita Jackson Samuels, interviewee; Walter DeVries, interviewer; Jack Bass, interviewer.

Duration: 00:47:44.

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.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0077, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sarah Geer. Original transcript: 29 p.

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

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