Nash, Jere Derian, Patricia M.
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Interview conducted by author Jere Nash with Pat Derian in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Derian served as national committeewoman at the 1968 Democratic National Convention; deputy director of the Jimmy Carter campaign in 1976; Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1977 to 1981. Topics covered include George Wallace; Jimmy Carter and his presidential campaign; Democratic Party in Mississippi during in 1976; position at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; appointment at the Department of State to handle human rights issues; relationship with James O. Eastland; lack of anyone from Mississippi congressional delegation at Derian's swearing-in ceremony; Carter endorsed by Eastland, George Wallace, and Griffin Bell; segregation; Derian's experiences during the civil rights era; a meeting with Citizens Council leader William J. Simmons; Derian's Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission file; unification of Mississippi Democratic Party; Claude Ramsey; Young Democrats; 1968 presidential election and the Democratic Party in Mississippi; Democratic National Convention in 1968 and attending lunch with Hubert Humphrey and other party leaders to argue about the Mississippi convention delegation; Charles Evers; Aaron Henry; Doug Wynn; 1964 State Democratic Executive Committee trying to keep Lyndon B. Johnson off the ballot; Fannie Lou Hamer; Hodding Carter III leaving the Department of State during the Iran hostage crisis; and Hodding Carter's Playboy article.
2004 11 19 T08:00:00 Z
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