Scoggin, Jonathan D., 1947-

Griffin, Ruth Faye

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections

2004-11-20

1 audio file (47:24) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (22 pages)

sound recording-nonmusical

spoken word

eng

Jonathan Scoggin was an 57-year-old man at the time of interview, which took place in his home in High Shoals, North Carolina. He was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina on March 24, 1947. He completed high school and was employed as a plumber, electrician, and transportation manager.

Jonathan Scoggin, son of South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Robert E. Scoggin, describes his life and his father's involvement with the KKK. Mr. Scoggin remembers his father as a strict disciplinarian with entrenched opinions who saw the Klan as a way to direct his political agenda. He describes his father's opposition to violence within the Klan and the internal tensions between different factions of the organization.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master file. Interview originally recorded on minidisc and digitized using Digidesign 003 rack.

Plumbers
Electricians
Blue collar workers

Scoggin, Jonathan D., 1947-
Scoggin, Robert E., 1922-2003

Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
United Klans of America
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities

Racism
Race discrimination
White supremacy movements

South Carolina--Spartanburg

Interviews
Oral histories

1950-2010

Interviews about Robert E. Scoggin

Living Charlotte : the postwar development of a New South city

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Robert E. Scoggin papers, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/215)

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