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Oral history interview with Guy B. Johnson, July 22, 1990 interview A-0345, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Guy B. Johnson, July 22, 1990 [electronic resource] : interview A-0345, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Interview A-0345, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Guy B. Johnson, July 22, 1990 (portion title)
Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991 (interviewee). Egerton, John. (interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

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Sociologist Guy B. Johnson recalls the string of lucky breaks that brought him to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a career as a sociologist. Johnson had more than a scholarly interest in race, and soon became active in the brewing civil rights agitation of the World War II era. Although he was a founding member of the Southern Regional Council (SRC), Johnson was wary of radicalism and believed that the court system was best equipped to dismantle segregation. In this interview he describes the creation of the SRC and his response to some of the legal victories for civil rights in the 1940s. Researchers interested in biographical details should look to the first half of this interview for unexcerpted information of interest.

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  • Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.

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General Note:
Duration: 02:03:25.
Interview participants: Guy B. Johnson, interviewee; John Egerton, interviewer.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Title from menu page (viewed on April 9, 2007).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : 90.4 kilobytes, ca. 226 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program collection, (#4007), Series A. Southern politics, interview A-0345, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jovita Flynn. Original transcript: 42 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.

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Subject:
Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972.
Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991 > Interviews.
Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954.
Southern Regional Council.
Segregation > Southern States.
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Oral histories.

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