Robert B. Flanagan oral history interviews (part II), 1988 Nov. 10 and 1989 Jan. 9.

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Robert B. Flanagan oral history interviews (part II), 1988 Nov. 10 and 1989 Jan. 9.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38726950

The collection consists of oral history interviews with Robert B. Flanagan on November 10, 1988 and January 9, 1989 in which he discusses 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 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (126 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7406228

Georgia State University

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