Dabney's views remained the same as the political climate changed
Dabney discusses his political views over his lifetime as a writer. He believes his views remained consistent, but the political climate changed.
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Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. 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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- WILLIAM H. TURPIN:
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Do you think that your views on these issues changed much over a ten year
period?
- VIRGINIUS DABNEY:
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Not very much. I think that my views were pretty largely the same at the
time I wrote the two books. It is important to realize that when I wrote
both of them, I was not asking for abolition of the segregation system.
People who thought that I was so far ahead of things at that time would
now think that I was conservative on that issue.
- WILLIAM H. TURPIN:
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You were just in effect asking for equal facilities, equal treatment,
which was considered a very far liberal advanced theory?
- VIRGINIUS DABNEY:
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I also was asking for abolition of the poll tax, which was objected to
very strenuously by the powers that be in Virginia.