Nash and Taggart Collection

Jere Nash Interview with Charles Clark

Identifier

NT_interview_14

Creation Date

1-24-2005

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Description

Interview conducted by author Jere Nash with Judge Charles Clark as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Clark was a former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Topics covered include William Winter; University of Mississippi law school; Clark's military service; practicing law in Jackson; Judge Harold Cox; James O. Eastland; litigation of civil rights cases for the Mississippi Attorney General's office; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Ross Barnett; 1962 University of Mississippi riot; Fielding Wright; Walter Sillers; appointment to the Fifth Circuit Court; reapportionment law suits; voting rights act; Comity Committee on out-of-state lawyers; representing the Institute of Higher Learning Board in the law suit of James H. Meredith to integrate the University of Mississippi; and J.P. Coleman.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Clark, Charles; Winter, William F.; University of Mississippi. Law Center; Lawyers -- Mississippi; Cox, W. Harold (William Harold), b. 1901; Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986; Civil rights; Mississippi. Attorney-General's Office; Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford; University of Mississippi -- Riot, September 30, 1962; Wright, Fielding (Fielding Lewis), 1895-1956; Sillers, Walter, 1888-1966; United States. Court of Appeals (5th Circuit); Apportionment (Election law) -- Mississippi; Suffrage; Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991;

Relational Format

audio recording

Extent

1900-01-00

Original Format

born digital audio

Original Collection

Nash and Taggart Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

Rights

This media file is owned by the copyright holder and may not be reproduced, re-posted, captured or saved. Due to copyright concerns, the recordings in this collection can only be accessed by arrangement with the Department of Archives and Special Collections.

Comments

original file name: 10079_CClark_2005Jan24_1h18min

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