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

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

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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.

2 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (126 p.)

Georgia State University

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Georgia State University

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Flanagan, Robert B., 1929-

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Robert B. Flanagan (1929- ), executive director of the Atlanta Branch of the NAACP, Georgia field director of the NAACP, president of the Georgia state conference of the NAACP branches, and on the national board of directors of the NAACP. From the description of Robert B. Flanagan oral history interviews (part II), 1988 Nov. 10 and 1989 Jan. 9. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38726950 From the description of Robert B. Flanagan oral history interviews, 1988 No...