Title
Interview with Marion Wright
Interviewer
Arnold Shankman and Ron Chepesiuk
Files
Abstract
IN PROCESSING
This interview includes Mr. Wright’s recollections and experiences growing up in Conway, African Americans in Conway, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, influences on his life including August Kohn and Josiah Morse, his law practice in Conway, his student days at the University of South Carolina, Jesse Daniel Ames, Dorothy Tilly, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and its successor the Southern Regional Council, Judge J. Waties Waring of Charleston, and Mrs. Wright’s experiences. This interview focuses on a discussion about Senator Bill Tillman, Senator “Cotton” Ed Smith and Governor Cole Blease.
Publication Date
3-11-1976
Unique Identifier
OH 020
Format
2 Cassettes
Length
2 hours, 30 minutes
Restrictions
This interview is not open for use.
Series
Politics
Keywords
Senator Ben Tillman, "Cotton" Ed Smith, Governor Cole L. Blease
Disciplines
Oral History
Recommended Citation
Wright, Marion, "Interview with Marion Wright" (1976). Browse All Oral History Interviews. OH 020.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/252
Notes
Additional interview date March 8, 1978.