The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Profiles in Change By John Egerton Vol. 1, No. 8, 1979, pp. 8-10, 26-28 (Editorial Note: This excerpt is taken from John Egerton’s School Desegregation: A Report Card from the South, published by Southern Regional Council in 1976. It provides
Southern Progressivism Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 6, No. 4, 1984, pp. 23-24 Southern Progressivism: The Reconciliation of Progress and Tradition by Dewey W. Grantham. University of Tennessee Press, 1983. 502 pp.$34.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. paper. The Progressive movement that
In Country, a novel by Bobbie Ann Mason. Harper &Row 247 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 8, No.1, 1986, pp. 20-22 The tumultuous decade of the 1960s still hovers over us like a great gray cloud, a mighty
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Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind By Stephen A. Smith (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986.) By John Egerton Vol. 9, No. 1, 1987, pp. 15-16 If anything is more prolific than kudzu in the South, it’s mythology. The collective
Preacher’s Parable. By John Egerton Vol. 9, No. 3, 1987, p. 23 Forty Acres and A Goat. By Will D. Campbell. (Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1986. 336 pp. $14.95.) An unusual combination of life experiences has shaped Will Campbell’s career
A brave voice in the wilderness Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 29-30 Simple Decency & Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963, by Linda Reed. (Indiana University Press, 1991. 257 pp.). In a half-century of
Odyssey of a Southern Radical Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 14, No. 4, 1992, pp. 29-30 James A. Dombrowski: An American Heretic, 1897-1983, Frank T. Adams (University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1992, 377 pages). It’s the American Dream in another
The Most Hated Man in Alabama Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 15, No. 2, 1993, pp. 20-22 Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the South’s Fight over Civil Rights, by Jack Bass (Doubleday,
A Life in Letters Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 15-16 How Am I to be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith, edited by Margaret Rose Gladney (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1993, 384 pages).
Delta Democrat Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 15, No. 4, 1993, pp. 22-23 Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist, by Ann Waldron (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1993, 369 pages). All through the late 1950s and early ’60s, as