William Clarence Randall oral history interview, 1989 Feb. 4.

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William Clarence Randall oral history interview, 1989 Feb. 4.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476311

The collection consists of an oral history interview with William C. Randall and William P. Randall on February 4, 1989 in which they discuss family background; WW II; mortuary business; construction business; getting involved with NAACP activities; racial etiquette; Primus King case; courthouse registration; political parties; the Republican party; black leadership in Macon; Macon Voters League; registration drives; groups involved in registration; union involvement; Talmadge-Carmichael election of 1946; Ku Klux Klan; Eugene Talmadge; the Crusaders; candidate yardstick; printing ballots; election of Jim Wood as sheriff; Randalls forced out of business; THE MACON WEEKLY; the Anderson family; integrating the Macon police force; Louis B. Wilson; Ed Wilson; the bus boycott (Macon); B.F. Nerritt; sit-ins; NAACP youth council; early success; police action during boycott; sit-ins; SCLC; Bibb County Coordinating Committee; Macon bus boycott; Ku Klux Klan; the tension in Macon during the boycott; Buck Melton; Macon Council on Human Relation; Jewish support of civil rights movement; and Gus Kauffman.

2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (96 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403164

Georgia State University

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