Reminiscences of Jonathan Daniels [electronic resource] : oral history, 1972

Biographical Note

Journalist

Scope and Contents

Childhood in North Carolina; education, University of North Carolina; writer for FORTUNE; editor, THE NEWS AND OBSERVER; politics and race relations in North Carolina; A SOUTHERNER DISCOVERS THE SOUTH; Assistant Director, United States Office of Civilian Defense; Administrative Assistant, later Press Secretary, to President Franklin D. Roosevelt; racial problems during World War II; senatorial campaign of Frank Porter Graham, 1950; Democratic Party since 1945. Impressions of Josephus Daniels, Henry Luce, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Thomas Wolfe, and leading southern journalists

Subjects

• Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981--Interviews.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--20th century.
• North Carolina--Race relations.
• Oral histories.
• Race discrimination--United States.
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
• Singal, Daniel Joseph, 1944- interviewer.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.
• United States--Race relations.
• World War, 1939-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1983