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Jesse Helms on busing
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Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- UNC Libraries / Documenting the American South
- Date created
- 1974
- Duration
- 0:59
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- MP3
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- Original audio housed by University of North Carolina Libraries
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- Brown versus Board of Education: Rhetoric and realities: In this lesson, students will listen to three oral histories that shed light on political and personal reactions toward the 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown versus Board of Education. Includes a teacher's guide as well as the oral history audio excerpts and transcripts. (Page 1.3)
- Brown versus Board of Education: Rhetoric and realities: In this lesson, students will listen to three oral histories that shed light on political and personal reactions toward the 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown versus Board of Education. Includes a teacher's guide as well as the oral history audio excerpts and transcripts. (Page 2.2)
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In this oral history excerpt of an interview between Jack Bass and Senator Jesse Helms in 1974, Jesse Helms addresses busing and racial antagonisms.
Transcript
- Jack Bass
- You know, your critics—some of your critics say that when you bring up anti-busing, that in effect it’s arousing traditional Southern racial fears and antagonisms.
- Jesse Helms
- Baloney. They know they’re talking through their hats. It’s nothing Southern about it. They ought to see how the folks in New York feel about it, in the case they’re being bossed—bused. Boss is right too.
- Jack Bass
- Without the Southern part, how about their charge that it does arouse racial antagonisms and fears?
- Jesse Helms
- Well, baloney again, because the surveys show that 80—87 percent, isn’t it? 87 percent of the Negro parents polled objected to forced busing. I’ve not had one black to write to me saying that he wanted forced busing for his child. We have had many blacks to write to us saying, “Senator, I didn’t vote for you, but you’re right about this. I prefer my child to walk to school.”
