Nash and Taggart Collection

Jere Nash Interview with Bill Allain

Identifier

NT_interview_2

Creation Date

12-17-2002

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Description

Interview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi Attorney General and Governor Bill Allain in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Allain's work in the state Attorney General's office on federal litigation on civil rights and school integration cases; Joe Patterson; Ross Barnett and James H. Meredith; Paul B. Johnson Jr.; John Bell Williams; J.P. Coleman; legislative reapportionment law suit; Harold Cox; congressional reapportionment law suit; separation of powers law suits in Mississippi; Mississippi Power and Light law suit; Republican allegations of Allain's homosexuality; Mississippi Supreme Court; and Bill Waller.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Allain, Bill; Mississippi. Attorney-General's Office; Patterson, Joe; School integration -- Mississippi; Civil rights -- Mississippi; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Meredith, James, 1933-; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Williams, John Bell, 1918-1983; Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991; Apportionment (Election law) -- Mississippi; Cox, W. Harold (William Harold), b. 1901; Separation of powers; Mississippi Power and Light Company; Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- United States; Political campaigns -- Mississippi; Elections -- Mississippi; Mississippi. Supreme Court; Waller, Bill;

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: 10070_BillAllain_2004Dec17

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