John W. Greer oral history interview, 1987 June 4.

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John W. Greer oral history interview, 1987 June 4.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477653

The collection consists of an oral history interview with John W. Greer on June 4, 1987 in which he discusses efforts to insure secret ballot in 1949; political factions within individual counties; "Talmadge crowd"; leaders of anti-Talmadge crowd; Bernard "Buckshot" Nightingale; Charles Gowen's 1954 gubernatorial campaign; Tom Linder; 1954 governor's race; Marvin Griffin; county unit campaigning; 1962 governor's race; Carl Sanders as an anti-Talmadge man; New Deal's effects on political factionalism; Warm Springs, Georgia; FDR; state Democratic convention; factional fighting; Jim Peters; anti-mask bill; Albany, Georgia as a pocket of anti-Talmadge feeling in southwest Georgia; Jim Gillis; building county roads; Downing Musgrove; highway board; moving to Atlanta; serving Fulton county compared to serving Lanier; road building; MARTA; trucking companies; appropriating money for highways; transportation; trucking legislation; Lamar Plunkett as appropriations committee chairman; and Lee Purdham.

1 audiotape ; cassette.

Georgia State University

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Georgia State University

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