Glen Rainey oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 8 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection consists of an oral history interview with Glenn W. Rainey on November 8, 1977 in which he discusses Helen Douglas Mankin as pioneer and fighter; 5th District Executive Committee; reasons Tom Camp and other liberals would lose elections; Morris Abram; Joesphine Wilkins; Earl Cook; Eleanor Raoul, suffragette; Lillian Smith; strategies of politicians on race issue; James Mackay; Jimmy Carter; Fifth District changes; Everett Millican as oil company spokesman and machine politician; Mankin's personality; Robert Ramspeck; Jeannette Rankin; the black vote; William Hartsfield as racist; Ivan Allen and racist material; black leadership in Atlanta; Atlanta blacks traditionally chose lesser of two evils in elections; Maynard Jackson; Andrew Young; benefits of having black mayor and black police chief; Hartsfield and the Freedom Train; Southern attitude and blacks; Rainey's avoidance from Talmadge college firings; lynching and Jessie Daniel Ames; James C. Davis; Hal Davison "Philosophy" Club; Lillian Smith and politics; Ralph McGill; Tarlton Collier; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; Josephine Wilkins; and Georgia Fact Finding Commission