Goodwin Party oral history interview, July 25, 1977

Item — othertype: Oral History

Identifier: GoodwinG_19770725_P1977-20

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Goodwin Party oral history interview

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Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Lorraine Spritzer. Among topics discussed: Jim Davis; Mankin's qualities; Mankin's rump committee; Robert Ramspeck; Davis's racial extremism; John Sammons Bell; Rooster Armisted; M. L. St. John; Murphy Candler; Larry McDonald; Georgia and the ERA; B. Brooks, editor of The Statesman, photographs Mankin at interracial meetings; George Stewart; Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1960 traffic offense which senthim to Reidsville prison; intercession of John and Robert Kennedy in King case; race issue during Mankin's campaigns; Dr. John Griffin; 1948 primary election; Everett Millican; Bert Lance; Abraham Ribicoff and mystery bank; Guy Mankin, Sr.; Mankin's interest in Israel; Margaret MacDougall; Guy Mankin, Sr.'s death; Curtis Bryant lake property dispute with Mankin; Ed White; Mankin's personality. Comparison of 1940s and 1970s Atlanta politics; James Davis election; Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter; Vernon Jordan; Mankin's courage; Charlie Brown; race‑baiters; Ellis Arnall; Ben Fortson; Robert Ramspeck; Jimmy Carter and spiritual recession in U.S.; Rodney Cook; 1946 special election; county unit system cases; Morris Abram; women in Georgia politics; race and labor issues in Georgia politics in 1940s; race issue in legal proceedings; Wyche Fowler; race issue in politics in 1970s. Mankin's courage; Martin Luther King, Jr.; A. T. Walden; triple lynching in Walton County, Georgia; political courage; school closing issue; Mankin's role in race issue; 1946 special election.

Dates

Creation: July 25, 1977

Creator

Goodwin, George Evans, 1917-2015 (Interviewee, Person)
Mackay, James A. (James Armstrong), 1919-2004 (Interviewee, Person)
Haas, Bea (Interviewee, Person)

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Oral history available for research.

Biographical note

Recording of gathering at home of George Goodwin. Participants include James Mackay, George Goodwin, and Bea Haas. James Mackay served in the Georgia House of Representatives 1951 to 1953 and 1955 to 1965, and as the 4th District US Congressman from 1965 to 1967. George Goodwin was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Atlanta Journal and director of Central Atlanta Improvement Association. Bea Haas was a key figure in the League of Women Voters in the 1940s.