noa_sohpcr_a-0010 a-0010 sohpcr noa yes Oral history interview with Howell Heflin, July 9, 1974 Heflin, Howell Bass, Jack De Vries, Walter Alabama--Politics and government Alabama--Race relations Courts--Alabama Alabama. Supreme Court Racism--Political aspects--Alabama Political questions and judicial power--Southern States Judges--Alabama Judges--Alabama--Elections Heflin, Howell Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 Howell Heflin, who sat on the Alabama State Supreme Court in the 1970s before a two-decade tenure in the Unites States Senate, discusses the post-segregation Alabama judiciary. The story is a familiar one: the persistent influence of race in a slowly changing environment. In the first half of the interview, Heflin describes some recent judicial reforms and his discomfort with the fact that judges must campaign for their seats. He worries that judges might be tempted to rule in favor of contributors. In the second half, Heflin turns to racial politics and comments on George Wallace and Barry Goldwater, as well as observing the arrival of a new generation of so-called activist judges taking the bench across the country. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. Southern Oral History Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library Oral histories of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)) 2006 Transcripts Sound recordings Oral histories http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0010/menu.html Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 105.5 kilobytes, 131.5 megabytes. Mode of access: World Wide Web. MP3 format / ca. 131 MB, 01:11:49 Title from menu page (viewed on May 24, 2007). Interview participants: Howell Heflin, interviewee; Jack Bass, interviewer; Walter DeVries, interviewer. Duration: 01:11:49. 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. Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. 1974-07-09 Alabama 20090723 151402