Chandler Davidson TexasPolitics research collection 1967-2007

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Chandler Davidson TexasPolitics research collection 1967-2007

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The Chandler DavidsonTexas Politics research collection includes material related to Rice SociologyProfessor Chandler Davidson’s research into the liberal political movement inTexas. Materials include audio cassette tapes of oral histories (some withtranscriptions), correspondence, clippings, research notes, publications, andstudent research papers. Interviewees include Texas politicians Billie Carr,Ralph Yarborough, Bob Eckhardt, Walter Hall, Sam Rayburn, Margaret Carter,Allan Shivers, and others.

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was born on January 6, 1882, in a rural area of Roane County, Tennessee. At age five, Rayburn, along with his parents and nine siblings, moved to a forty-acre cotton farm in Flag Springs, Texas. One more child was born after the move to Texas, and every member of the family had to do their share to make the farm profitable. Rayburn's interest in government coincided with the family's move, and it has been suggested that his curiosity intensified due to the "great golden...

Eckhardt, Bob – correspondence

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Carr, Billie – correspondence

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Yarborough, Ralph – interviews

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Hall, Walter – interviews

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Eckhardt, Bob – interviews

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Davidson, Chandler

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The Texas Politics Oral History Program originated from the research and teaching activities of Professor Chandler Davidson of the Sociology Department at Rice University. In conjunction with his research on the liberal political movement in Texas, he conducted a series of oral history interviews with individuals associated with this movement, a project funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities (N.E.H.) fellowship during the 1976-77 academic year. He also assembled a file (“Texas Ri...

Carter, Margaret - interviews

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LeRoy, Moses - interviews

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Shivers, Alan - interviews

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Rice University - Sociology Dept.

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Rice University - Texas Politics Oral History Project

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