Dorothy Rainey and Glen Rainey oral history interviews, November 8, 1977

Interviewed by Lorraine Spritzer. Dorothy Rainey and Glenn Rainey were interviewed together. Among topics discussed: County unit system; election machine mechanical failure; James "Jamie" Mackay; DeKalb County demographics; Dorothy Rainey's speech in support of Mankin; Dorothy Rainey's speeches; Devereaux McClatchey; Karl Plunkitt. Mankin as pioneer and fighter; 5th District Executive Committee; reasons Tom Camp and other liberals would lose elections; Morris Abram; Josephine Wilkins; Earl Cook; Eleanor Raoul, suffragette; Lillian Smith; strategies of politicians on race issue; Jimmy Carter; Fifth District changes; Everett Millican as oil company spokesman and machine politician; Mankin's personality; Robert Ramspeck; Jeanette Rankin. 1944 Duckworth correspondence; KKK threats; E.D. Rivers; Helen Bullard; Wiley Moore; Macon convention; Henry Wallace; differences between Ellis Arnall and Talmadge; Mayor Hartsfield; county unit system; the black vote; Hartsfield as racist; Ivan Allen and racist material; black leadership in Atlanta; Atlanta blacks traditionally chose lesser of two evils in elections; Maynard Jackson; Andrew Young; benefits of having black mayor and black police chief; Hartsfield and the Freedom Train; Southern attitude and blacks; Rainey's avoidance from Talmadge college firings; lynching and Jessie Daniel Ames. Eugene Talmadge and the county unit system; Hal Davison Club; Ralph McGill's support of Herman Talmadge; Tarlton Collier; Mankin's outspokenness and how she voted; interracial meetings; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; Jim Davis; Lillian Smith and politics; Ralph McGill; Tarlton Collier; Josephine Wilkins; Georgia Fact Finding Commission.