Oral History Interview with Jimmy Carter [exact date unavailable], 1974
Subtitle: Interview A-0066. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: De Vries, Walter, interviewer; Bass, Jack, 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; Democratic Party (Ga.); Republican Party (Ga.)
Other titles: Interview A-0066. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Jimmy Carter [exact date unavailable], 1974; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Jack Bass and Walter De Vries talk with then-Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter about the unique aspects of Southern politics, the viability of the Democratic Party, the importance of citizen participation, and the changes brought on by the Civil Rights Movement. Carter argues that the Democratic Party is recovering from the backlash against President Johnson and will overtake the Republican Party in many state elections in the coming years. Carter suggests several ways that Southern politics have changed for the better since the Civil Rights Movement and the Voting Rights Act, specifically in a noticeable shift toward pleasing voters rather than local business leaders. He argues that citizens' desire for personal contact with politicians, experience with social change, and religious beliefs give Southern politics unique traits that will soon affect United States politics in general.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 14, 2007).

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

Duration: 01:59:15.

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-066, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sarah Geer. Original transcript: 31 p.

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

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