The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Homegrown Progressives By John Egerton Vol. 16, No. 3, 1994, pp. 1, 4-17 Of all the South’s home-grown efforts to tackle regional social problems arising from the depression and the war, none were more extensive and substantial than those of
Ruin and Redemption Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 20-21 Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood by Michael D’Orso (Grosset-Putnam, 1996, 373 pages). What happened in the backwoods village of
Back to Birmingham By John Egerton Vol. 20, No. 4, 1998 pp. 3-7 On November 14-16, 1998, more than four-hundred Southerners convened in Birmingham, Alabama, on the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare to
In Memorium: Pat Watters (1927-1999) By John Egerton Vol. 21, No. 3, 1999 p. 25 Journalist and author Pat Watters, SRC’s director of information from 1963 to 1975, died in Abbeville, Louisiana, on August 3 after a long struggle with
John Nicholas Popham III 91910-1999) By John Egerton Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 1999 pp. 21-22 The newspapers in Chattanooga and New York took particular note of the death, on December 12, of John N. Popham. In the days since,