- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978
- Creator:
- Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan), 1894-1983
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1978-03-08
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--North Carolina
Civil rights workers--Southern States
Southern Regional Council
Civil rights movements--Southern States
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
Segregation--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations
University of South Carolina--Students - People:
- Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan), 1894-1983
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Marion Wright describes his beliefs about racial justice and his membership in the Southern Regional Council (SRC). Wright was one of a group of white southerners who sought to tackle the entrenched racism of the twentieth-century South. As a member of the SRC, Wright sought to end legal segregation, although he and other members were sensitive to pushing for too much change too quickly. The group also stayed off the streets as protest mounted, seeking to maintain its authority as well as its tax-exempt status. As the civil rights movement reached new beginnings in the 1950s and 1960s, the SRC faded. This interview is a portrait of a civil rights leader in the era before the movement was defined by direct action.
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/B-0034/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on June 25, 2008).
Interview participants: Marion Wright, interviewee; Jacquelyn Hall, interviewer.
Duration: 01:43:13.
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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