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Hendricks oral history interview, 1993 December 10","metadata":[{"label":"Abstract","value":"Among topics discussed: Upbringing in Talbot County, Georgia; racial situation in Macon; Mercer University; involvement of theology professor McLeod Bryan in civil rights movement; Bryan and Committee of Southern Churchmen and Fellowship of Southern Churchmen in 1964; The Combustible; sociology professor Das Kelly Barnett and segregated Macon buses; English professor Welcome Talmadge Smalley; Macon Council on Human Relations (MCHR); Hendricks’s involvement with MCHR in 1959; Macon civil rights movement’s links to Atlanta civil rights movement; Frances Pauley; NAACP’s small role; MCHR members:  Gus Kaufman, William Randall, Ruth Hartley Mosley, Fisher Mosley, William Hutchins; goals of MCHR; rise of Macon civil rights leaders out of MCHR; lack of race riots in Macon during 1960s; William Randall, black ministers, and Macon bus boycott in 1962; Donald Hollowell and Thomas Jackson; Hedricks and Randall activity toward desegregating Hospital Commission (Macon-Bibb County Hospital Authority) in 1965; desegregation of Mercer University in 1962; Sam Jerry Oni, Nigerian Baptist convert; Harris Mobley, student of McLeod Bryan turned missionary convinces Oni to apply to Mercer; African-Americans accepted into Mercer:  Bennie Stephens and Cecil Dewberry; desegregation of Mercer in Ashes for Breakfast by Thomas J. Holmes and Gainer E. Bryan, Jr., in 1969; treatment of blacks on Mercer campus prior to desegregation; Rufus Harris as president of Mercer and desegregation; race relations in Macon compared with Columbus, Augusta, Albany, Savannah, and Southwest Georgia; role of colleges and universities in desegregation in Georgia cities; Paine College in Augusta; Atlanta’s influence on Macon; role of newspaper reporter George Doss and Macon integration; Doss and MCHR; city politicians’ and business leaders’ unwillingness to integrate Macon; Ed Wilson and desegregating golf course; desegregating public library; nonviolence in Macon bus boycott; arrest of Randall for traffic violation; integrating Macon schools; opposition to integration; Ku Klux Klan; “genteel” segregationists in Macon; Mayor “Machine Gun” Ronnie Thompson in late 1960s; Thompson drives tank through Macon; effects of black power, Vietnam, and national race riots on civil rights movement in Macon. Different atmosphere in Macon after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination; Hendricks describes Macon on the brink of chaos in late 1960s; Poor People’s March; Ronnie Thompson and March; Randall’s opinions of Thompson; Mayor Edgar H. Wilson and Macon blacks; rural areas and cities around Macon; Warner Robins, Georgia; murder of Willie Jean Carreker in Talbot County in 1974; Will D. Campbell; civil rights and desegregation in Talbotton; reasons for slow integration in Talbot County; Christine Hardnett; Democratic Party and the white primary in the 1940s; Harry Strozier, Hoyt T. Davis, and Primus King case; Republican judges; much of civil rights struggle in the judicial realm prior to 1960s; Clarence Jordan and Koinonia Farm in Americus; Mike Bryan and Ray Brewster’s work with Koinonia; peril of those staying at Koinonia; Americus businessman Herbert Birdsey refuses to boycott Koinonia, business bombed; effect of civil rights movement on relationship between Mercer University and Macon."},{"label":"Access Note","value":"Using the menu at right, you may select either the full transcript (top icon) or an audio file and then access it in the window above. By clicking the button above the window, you may download the selected file to your computer (transcript in PDF format, audio in MP3). To listen to the interview and read the transcript simultaneously, you must download one of the formats and open it in a separate application."},{"label":"Biographical/Historical Note","value":"Joseph M. Hendricks is Professor Emeritus of Christianity at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia."},{"label":"Citation","value":"Hendricks, Joseph M., Interviewed by Stephen Tuck, 10 December 1993, P2003-02, Series R. Beyond Atlanta, Georgia Government Documentation Project, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library, Atlanta."},{"label":"Collection","value":"Georgia Government Documentation Project"},{"label":"Creator","value":"Hendricks, Joseph M.;"},{"label":"Date","value":"1993-12-10"},{"label":"Decade","value":"1990s;"},{"label":"Finding Aid","value":"https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1508"},{"label":"Format","value":"audio/mpeg; application/pdf;"},{"label":"Source Format","value":"01:10:59, 41 pages"},{"label":"Identifier","value":"Hendricks, JM_19931210_P2003-02"},{"label":"Language","value":"English;"},{"label":"Standardized Rights Statements","value":"This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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