- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Guy B. Johnson, July 22, 1990
- Creator:
- Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991
- Contributor to Resource:
- Egerton, John
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1990-07-22
- Subject:
- Segregation--Southern States
Southern Regional Council - People:
- Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991
Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954
Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972 - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Sociologist Guy B. Johnson recalls the string of lucky breaks that brought him to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a career as a sociologist. Johnson had more than a scholarly interest in race, and soon became active in the brewing civil rights agitation of the World War II era. Although he was a founding member of the Southern Regional Council (SRC), Johnson was wary of radicalism and believed that the court system was best equipped to dismantle segregation. In this interview, he describes the creation of the SRC and his response to some of the legal victories for civil rights in the 1940s. Researchers interested in biographical details should look to the first half of this interview as well for information of interest.
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-0345/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 02:03:25
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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