Calvin Craig oral history interview, 1992 Apr. 30.

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Calvin Craig oral history interview, 1992 Apr. 30.

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The collection consists of an oral history interview with Calvin Craig on April 30, 1992 in which he discusses his family background; town of Jenkinsburg; Clayton and Henry County Genealogical Society; family business when a youth; lack of family and community closeness today; family values; Craig's theory of what would help America; welfare/workfare; Model City Board administrative problems; Craig's political activities in Clayton County; how past membership in Klan affects political activity; Jimmy Carter's parents; ex-Klansmen and criminal activity; Lemuel Penn case in Athens, Georgia area; Klan demonstrations; Leroy Johnson; desegregation and economic rights; integrating restaurants and abortion issues; Craig joins Klan; school desegregation; reasons Craig joined Klan; and the Crawfordville school desegregation incident. Also Herbert Jenkins and Hollywood Road incident; UGA desegregation and the Klan; Klan walks through black neighborhoods; reason various Klan activities occurred; Xernona Clayton biography discusses Craig; reason Craig left Klan; death of Martin Luther King, Jr.; King family misfortunes; Eugene Cook; lack of violence in Atlanta; reaction to Craig's departure from Klan; fluctuations in Klan membership; House Un-American Activities Committee and how Klan got bad name; Charles Weltner and Klan records; Craig's stay in Washington, D.C.; reason Craig didn't go to jail; the Weltner family; Craig's support of Wyche Fowler in City Council campaign; and reason Klan operates secretly.

1 audiotape ; cassette.

Georgia State University

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Georgia State University

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