Joe Mack Wilson oral history interview, 1988 Apr. 1

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Joe Mack Wilson oral history interview, 1988 Apr. 1

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477745

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Joe Mack Wilson on April 1, 1988 in which he discusses his family background; early family homes; education; successful students; ditch digging; quality of Marietta education; teacher salary; FHA mortgages; WPA jobs; effect of the Depression; hitchhiking to Atlanta; Wilson family business; family history; interest in city politics; 1959 Marietta mayoral race; Red Atherton; campaigning; power within Cobb County and the press; C.W. Barmlett; Sam Welsch; Rip Blair; Jimmy Carmichael; 1960 legislative race; support for education; interest groups; local races as personality contests; constituencies; county unit system; political support in local politics; university accreditation issue; attitude toward Ellis Arnall's book THE SHORE DIMLY SEEN; Cobb County changes to five-man commission system; 1964 commission race; voting machines; cause of lost 1964 election; Lester Maddox election; increase in legislative power; Tom Murphy; urban caucus; Elliott Levitas; George Busbee; reapportionment committee; affect of reapportionment on Atlanta area; 1980 reapportionment; Dorothy Felton's comments on race; country club Republicans; legislating by court edict; result of special session reapportionment; Rules Committee; Ways and Means Committee; elimination of factoring in tax assessments; Al Burruss-Wilson local sales tax bill; and Southern Tech.

3 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (88 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7404425

Georgia State University

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