WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Mickey Michaux

WUNC | By Jeff Tiberii

Published July 21, 2017 at 10:27 AM EDT

This week on the WUNCPolitics Podcast, a conversation with Mickey Michaux, a longtime civil rights activist who was first elected to the North Carolina General Assembly in 1972 as a Democrat.

Michaux has served as a U.S. Attorney and is considered by some to be a living, breathing relic of North Carolina.

When he was first elected more than 40 years ago, he was one of three African-American legislators at the Legislature.

Michaux reflects on his career in a conversation with WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii.WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks with longtime North Carolina legislator Mickey Michaux.

Longtime North Carolina Legislator Mickey Michaux sits in his office on July 18, 2017.

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Jeff Tiberii first started posing questions to strangers after dinner at La Cantina Italiana, in Massachusetts, when he was two-years-old. Jeff grew up in Wayland, Ma., an avid fan of the Boston Celtics, and took summer vacations to Acadia National Park (ME) with his family. He graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, and moved to North Carolina in 2006. His experience with NPR member stations WAER (Syracuse), WFDD (Winston-Salem) and now WUNC, dates back 15 years.

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