The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
An Abrupt Reversal Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 13, No. 4, 1991, pp. 30-31 Frank Porter Graham and the 1950 Senate Race in North Carolina, by Julian M. Pleasants and Augustus M. Burns. (University of North Carolina Press, 1990, xv,
Are We Ready for a Vision of Justice? Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 14, No. 1, 1992, pp. 25-28 Savage Inequalities. Jonathan Kozol. (Crown Publishers, 1991. ix, 262 pp.). The Promised Land. Nicholas Lemann. (Knopf, 1991. 410 pp.). Explanations of
A strong figure in a tumultuous era Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 27-29 Chronicles of Faith, The Autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson, edited by Martia Graham Goodson, with a foreword by Harry V. Richardson (University
Using the Dilemma: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. The Political Biography of an American Dilemma, by Charles V. Hamilton (Atheneum, Illustrated, 1991, x, 545 pages). Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 14, No. 4, 1992, pp. 27-29 To an unusually bright and
Remembering Harold and Marge By Leslie Dunbar Vol. 15, No. 1, 1993, pp. 17-18 At the Atlanta/Fulton County Public Library November 19, 1992, Harold Fleming, former director of the Southern Regional Council, and Marge Manderson, long-time program officer, researcher, and
Cross-Examining America Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 15, No. 1, 1993, pp. 30-31 Declarations of Independence, by Howard Zinn (Harper-Collins, 1990, 341 pages). The Disunity of America. Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (W. W. Norton, 1992,
Notable Re-releases Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 35-36 Willie Mae, by Elizabeth Kytle, has been re-issued again, this time by the University of Georgia Press. First published in 1958, an earlier re-release of this book
Promises, Promises Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 15, No. 4, 1993, pp. 20-22 The Promise of the New south: Life After Reconstruction, by Edward L. Ayers (Oxford University Press, New York, 1992, xii, 572 pages). Historians take the past on
Unreconciled Southerners Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 16, No. 2, 1994, pp. 24-26 A Southern Life, Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981, edited by Laurence G. Avery (University of North Carolina Press, 1994, 735 pages). I confess that I often feel
Schools in Conflict: A History Lesson By Leslie Dunbar Vol. 21, No. 1, 1999 pp. 22-23 The Supreme Court’s school desegregation decision announced May 17, 1954 had been too long coming. The South’s political order, aided by the nation’s indifference