- Collection:
- Reflections on Georgia Politics oral history collection, 2006-2010
- Title:
- Bill Shipp, 20 March 2013.
- Creator:
- Shipp, Bill, 1933
Short, Bob, 1932 - Contributor to Resource:
- Short, Bob, 1932-
- Date of Original:
- 2013-03-20
- Subject:
- Republican Party (Ga.)
Governors--Election
Civil rights--Georgia
Apportionment (Election law)--Georgia
Elections--Georgia
Flags--United States--States
Lotteries--Georgia
Apportionment (Election law)
Civil rights
Elections
Flags--U.S. states
Lotteries
Politics and government
Race relations
Georgia--Politics and government
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations
Georgia
Georgia--Atlanta
United States - People:
- Cleland, Max, 1942-
Shipp, Bill, 1933-
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Barnes, Roy E. (Roy Eugene), 1948-
Johnson, Leroy Reginald, 1928-
Sanders, Carl, 1925-2014
Gingrich, Newt
Miller, Zell, 1932-2018 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In an interview at his home in Acworth, Georgia, Bill Shipp discusses the range of modern Georgia politics, with a particular emphasis on Georgia governors since 1946. Topics include race relations in Atlanta during the Civil Rights Movement, the fall of the county unit system, congressional reapportionment in Georgia, the race between Carl Sanders and Jimmy Carter in 1970, Leroy Johnson, Zell Miller and the Georgia lottery, the rise of the Republican Party in Georgia, the Three Governors Controversy, Herman Talmadge's governorship, Jim Gillis's tenure as the director of the highway department, Roy Barnes and the Georgia flag controversy, Newt Gingrich, Max Cleland, and Shipp's career as a journalist.
Finding aid available in repository.
William "Bill" Shipp was born in Marietta, Georgia, on August 16, 1933. He attended Emory University and the University of Georgia, where he was the managing editor of the Red and Black newspaper. In 1953, he wrote articles criticizing the decision by the Board of Regents and Governor Herman Talmadge to bar African-American Horace T. Ward from enrollment in UGA's School of Law. The subsequent takeover of the paper by the Board of Regents led to Shipp's resignation. He served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956. In 1956, Shipp joined the Atlanta Constitution, where he would go on to cover such subjects as the civil rights movement, the space program and numerous political campaigns and leaders. Shipp broke the story of Jimmy Carter's plan to run for the presidency. In 1987, Shipp left the newspaper to start Word Merchants; the company produced the weekly newsletter, "Bill Shipp's Georgia," which was the first serious political journal on the Internet. His columns have appeared in numerous publications, and he was a member of the Georgia Gang, a televised discussion of current political events.
Interviewed by Bob Short.
Related materials available in the following collections of this repository: Reflections on Georgia Politics Oral History Collection, ROGP 004 Bill Shipp; Bill Shipp Papers. - Metadata URL:
- http://purl.libs.uga.edu/russell/RBRL220ROGP-147/ohms
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Resources may be used under the guidelines described by the U.S. Copyright Office in Section 107, Title 17, United States Code (Fair use). Parties interested in production or commercial use of the resources should contact the Russell Library for a fee schedule.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Reflections on Georgia Politics Oral History Collection, ROGP 147, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.
- Extent:
- 1 interview (77 min.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- Reflections on Georgia Politics Oral History Collection
http://sclfind.libs.uga.edu/sclfind/view?docId=ead/RBRL220ROGP.xml - Contributing Institution:
- Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
- Rights:
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