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| Creator: | Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan), 1894-1983 |
| Creator: | Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd |
| Title: | Oral history interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978 |
| Date: | 1978 Mar. 8 |
| Description: | Marion Wright describes his beliefs about racial justice and his membership in the Southern Regional Council (SRC). Wright was one of a group of white southerners who sought to tackle the entrenched racism of the twentieth-century South. As a member of the SRC, Wright sought to end legal segregation, although he and other members were sensitive to pushing for too much change too quickly. The group also stayed off the streets as protest mounted, seeking to maintain its authority as well as its tax-exempt status. As the civil rights movement reached new beginnings in the 1950s and 1960s, the SRC faded. This interview is a portrait of a civil rights leader in the era before the movement was defined by direct action. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Transcripts | Sound recordings | Oral histories |
| Subjects: | Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan), 1894-1983 | Civil rights movements--North Carolina | Civil rights workers--Southern States | Southern Regional Council | Civil rights movements--Southern States | African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States | Segregation--Southern States | Southern States--Race relations | University of South Carolina--Students | North Carolina | Columbia (S.C.) | Richland County (S.C.) |
| Collection: | Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement |
| Institution: | Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Contributors: | Southern Oral History Program | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library | Oral histories of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)) |
| Online Publisher: | [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. | 2007 |
| Original Material: | Title from menu page (viewed on June 25, 2008). Interview participants: Marion Wright, interviewee; Jacquelyn Hall, interviewer. Duration: 01:43:13. 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. Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/B-0034/menu.html |
