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Oral History Interview with Jonathan Worth Daniels, March 9-11, 1977. Interview A-0313. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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Daniels's father actively campaigned to disenfranchise black voters

Daniels's father viewed blacks in general as morally loose. This opinion influenced his racist campaign to disenfranchise black voters. Daniels's father used sex as a means to exploit white fears surrounding interracial sex, inciting ideas about the need to protect white femininity.

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Interviewer	Charles Eagles
Interviewee	Jonathan Worth Daniels
Excerpt Length	0:01:37
Start Time	01:07:10
Stop Time	01:08:47
Subjects	Southern Women > GENDER AND GENDER RELATIONS > Female Gender Identity Southern Women > GENDER AND GENDER RELATIONS > Male Gender Identity Southern Politics > POLITICS AND CULTURE > Politics and Gender Southern Politics > POLITICS AND CULTURE > Politics and Race Southern Politics > CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTORAL > Appeals to Cultural Politics Race and Civil Rights > RACE AND RACE RELATIONS > Media Depictions of Race Race and Civil Rights > RACE AND RACE RELATIONS > Interracial Dating Race and Civil Rights > RACE AND RACE RELATIONS > Racial Myths and Stereotypes
Excerpt People	Daniels, Josephus

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Oral History Interview with Jonathan Worth Daniels, March 9-11, 1977. Interview A-0313. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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CHARLES EAGLES:: Were his attitudes towards sex and toward liquor and toward blacks all part of one way of looking at the world, do you think?
JONATHAN WORTH DANIELS:: I wouldn't be surprised. He undoubtedly had a very low opinion of the morals of blacks. Whether it was justified or not, I don't know. In the poverty of the blacks at that time there was a lot of loose living and so forth. I'm sure he felt that if the blacks ruled, there'd be . . . Well, he brought the element of sex into his campaign in pictures of a black school board member dictating to a white teacher. Now it didn't go any further than that, but the implication was clear. In all racial relationships, there has always been a fear, and a fear related to sex. I don't know why that's so.
CHARLES EAGLES:: It was related with him, too.
JONATHAN WORTH DANIELS:: I don't mean that he discussed it any, but there's that cartoon by this man Norman E. Jennett. There was the business of "We've got to protect our women from lusty black men." This didn't come into his personal life in any sense; I know it didn't.