- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Howell Heflin, July 9, 1974
- Creator:
- Heflin, Howell
- Contributor to Resource:
- Bass, Jack
De Vries, Walter
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1974-07-09
- Subject:
- 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 - People:
- Heflin, Howell
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- 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. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0010/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 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. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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