Title
Interview with Marion A. 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 Ben 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
Disciplines
Oral History
Keywords
Senator Ben Tillman, "Cotton" Ed Smith, Governor Cole L. Blease
Recommended Citation
Wright, Marion A., "Interview with Marion A. Wright" (1976). Winthrop University Oral History Program. OH 020.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/252
LC Subject Headings
University of South Carolina -- Alumni and alumnae, College students -- Social life and customs, Lawyers -- South Carolina -- Conway, Conway (S.C.) -- Biography, African Americans -- South Carolina -- Conway, Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918, Kohn, August, 1868-1930, Morse, Josiah, 1879-1946, Ames, Jessie Daniel, 1883-1972, Tilly, Dorothy Rogers, 1883-1970, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Southern Regional Council, Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968, Wright, Alice Norwood Spearman, 1902-1989, Smith, Ellison DuRant, 1866-1944, Blease, Coleman Livingston, 1868-1942
Notes
Additional interview date March 8, 1978.