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George, Stine,. Stine George oral history interview, 1989 Oct. 14.

Title: Stine George oral history interview, 1989 Oct. 14.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Stine George on October 14, 1989 in which he discusses family background; reapportionment in Moultrie and Colquitt County; "People United for Fairness"; Laughlin McDonald; voter registration 1959-63 Donalsonville, Georgia; Mugg Burke; Seminole County organizations; KKK; "New Communities"; Charles Sherrod; George's campaign for city council; political maneuvering in Seminole County; Ford Foundation grant; traveling with Ford Foundation; problems of being both activist and teacher; gaining community support; desegregation of Seminole County police force; street paving; desegregation of juries; the Future Farmers of America; George being ostracized by the State of Georgia; community action council; the WIN program; Job Corps; racism in the Labor Department; Colquitt County; John Cross; the lack of morality of teachers in Colquitt County; the NAACP in Moultrie; Edward Starkey; Judge Robert Elliott; George's EEOC lawsuit against Community Action Council; Wesley Ball; the problems of at-large council members; vote buying; D.L. Inman; Frank Wilson; problems of multi-member's districts; Robert Flanagan; the multi-member district plan's origins; and opposition to ACLU's plan.

ArchivalResource: 1 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (74 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476302 View

Flanagan, Robert B., 1929-. Robert B. Flanagan oral history interviews (part II), 1988 Nov. 10 and 1989 Jan. 9.

Title: Robert B. Flanagan oral history interviews (part II), 1988 Nov. 10 and 1989 Jan. 9.

The collection consists of oral history interviews with Robert B. Flanagan on November 10, 1988 and January 9, 1989 in which he discusses NAACP expansion; SCLC in Georgia; efforts to integrate Twiggs county police force; NAACP hierarchy; the Black Panthers, NAACP and the SCLC in Savannah; Black Panthers in Georgia; the SCLC after 1968; NAACP voter registration tactics; Frances Duncan; the NAACP and Georgia's Secretary of State; Vernon Jordon; legal action to open voter registration in 1983; Justice Department pressure on local registrars; legal action to redistrict Mitchell County; John McCown (Hancock County); Sheriff Dye (Warren County); Ed Brown; police intimidation of blacks attempting to vote; voter turnout; Joe Mack Wilson; redistricting; Grace Towns Hamilton; the 1992 elections; black officials in poor counties; the change in racial etiquette; political infighting in the Georgia NAACP; counties with significant changes in racial etiquette; opinions of the administrations of Lester Maddox, Jimmy Carter, George Busbee, and Joe Frank Harris; Charles McCant; Julian Bond case; Robert Benham, the Talmadge-Mattingly election; black senators and the Speaker of the House; new voting strategies; watching an elderly black man vote for the first time; and changes in racial etiquette.

ArchivalResource: 2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (126 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38726950 View

Flanagan, Robert, B., 1929-. Robert B. Flanagan oral history interviews, 1988 Nov. 10 and 1989 Jan. 9.

Title: Robert B. Flanagan oral history interviews, 1988 Nov. 10 and 1989 Jan. 9.

The collection consists of oral history interviews of Robert B. Flanagan on November 10, 1988 and January 9, 1989 in which he discusses career background; voter registration before and after the Civil Rights Act; the power of a local grand jury; at-large voting; promoting voter registration; Voter Education Project; the black ministry; black leadership in Georgia; John Lewis; Vernon Jordan; Herman Talmadge; Curtis Atkins; Talmadge's position switch on race issue; Rufus Clement; voter education to combat poll list purges; apathy during Bush-Dukakis presidential race; how to get a strong black vote without a white backlash; Douglas Wilder; the continuing importance of the Voting Rights Act; "packing" in redistricting precincts; methods to discourage black voting; second run-offs; Ku Klux Klan; white politicians catering to black vote; modern voter registration; permanent voter registration; one man county commissions; marches in the 1960s; Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns; NAACP youth program; voter registration drives; fear during the civil rights movements; Ed Brown and southwest Georgia; early interest in civil rights; Bailey Theaters; Thomas J. Flanagan; the 1946 Helen Douglas Mankin election; Atlanta Daily World; John Wesley Dobbs; Benjamin Mays; Abraham Lincoln Republicans; WW II veterans challenging segregation; black leadership in Atlanta; Ira Reid; civil rights activity during WW II; Georgia's NAACP; NAACP and the EEOC's effort to gain blacks employment in Georgia industry. NAACP expansion; SCLC in Georgia; efforts to integrate Twiggs county police force; NAACP hierarchy; the Black Panthers, NAACP and the SCLC in Savannah; Black Panthers in Georgia; the SCLC after 1968; NAACP voter registration tactics; Frances Duncan; the NAACP and Georgia's Secretary of State; Vernon Jordon; legal action to open voter registration in 1983; Justice Department pressure on local registrars; legal action to redistrict Mitchell county; John McCown (Hancock County); Sheriff Dye (Warren County); Ed Brown; police intimidation of blacks attempting to vote; voter turnout; Joe Mack Wilson; redistricting; Grace Towns Hamilton; the 1992 elections; black officials in poor counties; the change in racial etiquette; political infighting in the Georgia NAACP; counties with significant changes in racial etiquette; opinions of the administrations of Lester Maddox, Jimmy Carter, George Busbee, and Joe Frank Harris; Charles McCant; Julian Bond case; Robert Benham, the Talmadge-Mattingly election; black senators and the Speaker of the House; new voting strategies; watching an elderly black man vote for the first time; and changes in racial etiquette.

ArchivalResource: 2 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (126 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476298 View

Georgia Government Documentation Project. Black involvement in politics oral history collection, 1986, 1989-1990.

Title: Black involvement in politics oral history collection, 1986, 1989-1990.

The collection consists of oral history interviews regarding the involvement of blacks in Georgia politics. Most of the interviews took place at the Georgia State NAACP convention, Brunswick, Georgia on October 13 - 14, 1989. Interviewees include Dorothy Bolden, Gladys Cheney, Doyle Combs, Beulah Clark Dollar, LaRamon Durham, Robert B. Flanagan, Stine George, Booker T. Hagen, Grace Towns Hamilton, Bertha Harrell, Jacob R. Henderson, W.W. Law, Geneva Lyde, Waymon Norwood, William Clarence Randall, William P. Randall, Cornelius Sheppard, Robert A. Thompson, and George Williams.

ArchivalResource: 33 audiotapes ; cassette.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476293 View