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Oral history interview with Moon Landrieu, January 11, 1974 [electronic resource] : interview A-0089, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Summary:

Moon Landrieu served as the Democratic mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978. During his tenure, he worked to instigate sweeping changes in race relations, including the appointment of African Americans to serve in various public capacities. In this interview, Landrieu discusses changes in New Orleans politics since 1948, placing particular emphasis on the growing importance of the "black vote." Elected mayor in 1970 with 95 percent of the black vote, Landrieu explains how his administration was responsible for some of the more radical changes in the changing racial landscape of New Orleans politics. For Landrieu, campaigns for voter registration and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were especially powerful harbingers of change in Southern politics. In addition, Landrieu talks about the role of black political organizations; the likelihood of establishing an enduring Populist Coalition that could unite blue-collar whites and African Americans as a powerful political constituency; the relational nature between city politics and state politics; and the role of corruption in political matters.

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

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:23:13.
Interview participants: Landrieu, Moon, interviewee; Bass, Jack, interviewer; Walter DeVries, interviewer.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by 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 March 3, 2008).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 114 kilobytes, 152 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0089, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Susan Hathaway. 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.
Subject:
Landrieu, Moon, 1930- > Interviews.
Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935.
Mayors > Louisiana > New Orleans > Interviews.
Politicians > Louisiana > New Orleans > Interviews.
School integration > Louisiana.
Louisiana > Politics and government > 1951-
Louisiana > Race relations.
New Orleans (La.) > Politics and government.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
Genre:
Oral histories.

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520 . ‡aMoon Landrieu served as the Democratic mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978. During his tenure, he worked to instigate sweeping changes in race relations, including the appointment of African Americans to serve in various public capacities. In this interview, Landrieu discusses changes in New Orleans politics since 1948, placing particular emphasis on the growing importance of the "black vote." Elected mayor in 1970 with 95 percent of the black vote, Landrieu explains how his administration was responsible for some of the more radical changes in the changing racial landscape of New Orleans politics. For Landrieu, campaigns for voter registration and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were especially powerful harbingers of change in Southern politics. In addition, Landrieu talks about the role of black political organizations; the likelihood of establishing an enduring Populist Coalition that could unite blue-collar whites and African Americans as a powerful political constituency; the relational nature between city politics and state politics; and the role of corruption in political matters.
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