Thumbnail Image
Publication

Samuel Hollis, General Executive Assistant to Mayor Edmund Orgill, 2004

Citations
Altmetric:
Contributor
Hollis, Samuel B.
Gritter, Elizabeth
Photographer
Author
Artist
Editor
Advisor
Keywords
Oral history, Interviews, Memphis (Tenn.), Civil rights, Orgill, Edmund, Politics
Local ID
20040614_Samuel_Hollis
Collections
Everett R. Cook Oral History Collection
Show all metadata
Files
Thumbnail Image
samuel hollis.PNG
PNG, 39.41 KB
samuel.b.hollis.tape1.doc
Microsoft Word, 189.5 KB
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10267/34120
Abstract
Description
Here interviewee Samuel B. Hollis, General Executive Assistant to Mayor Edmund Orgill and friend to the Good Government League, describes the difficulties of operating in the power vacuum created after the death of E.H. Crump. He also talks about how the status quo reinforces inequality and continues to shape politics in Memphis