- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Herman Talmadge, November 8, 1990
- Creator:
- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002
- Contributor to Resource:
- Talmadge, Betty
Egerton, John
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1990-11-08
- Subject:
- Democratic Party (Ga.)
Georgia--Politics and government
Republican Party (Ga.)
Southern States--Race relations
School integration--Georgia
Segregation--Georgia
Governors--Georgia
Political parties--Georgia - People:
- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002
Talmadge, Betty
Talmadge, Eugene, 1884-1946 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Herman Talmadge served as the Democratic governor of Georgia from 1948 to 1955 (in addition to a brief stint in 1947), and went on to represent that state in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1981. In this interview, he shares his opinions on integration and race relations in Georgia. Talmadge, who opposed integration, claims that he did so to avoid tensions. He maintains that had the federal government stayed out of the South, states like Georgia would have integrated slowly but surely and with significantly less strife.
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-0347/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 00:50:19.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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