Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois

Title:

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois

Number of Pages:

17

Description:

Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in the 1930s when he was state director of the NYA; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; 1952 split in Texas Democratic Party (Shivers’ “legal delegation” seated at the 1952 national convention); Texas governor’s race with W. Lee O’Daniel, William McCraw and Ernest O. Thompson; W. Lee O’Daniel; Senator Alvin Wirtz; Tom Miller; women in the Texas Democratic Party; fraud in 1940s elections; 1956 governor’s race between Beauford Jester and Homer Rainey; conservatism of Texas newspapers in the 1940s.

Contributor:

Long, Emma

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

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Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Emma Long

Subject:

National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details