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Oral history interview with U.W. Clemon, July 17, 1974 interview A-0006, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Summary: Birmingham lawyer and politician U.W. Clemon describes his place in Birmingham politics and the city's continuing problems with race. Clemon discusses his membership on the Birmingham City Council, the prospect of George Wallace joining the 1976 presidential slate, and his hopes for the influence of an increased number of African Americans in the state senate.

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Record details

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

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:00:31.
Interview participants: U.W. Clemon, interviewee; Jack Bass, 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. 89.5 kilobytes, 110.8 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0006, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Linda Killen. Original transcript: 22 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:
Clemon, U. W 1943- Interviews
Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) 1904-1996
Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 1919-1998
Democratic Party (Ala.)
African American lawyers Alabama Interviews
African American politicians Alabama Interviews
School integration Alabama Birmingham
Alabama Politics and government 1951-
Alabama Race relations
Birmingham (Ala.) Politics and government
Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations
Genre:
Oral histories.

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