The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Super Tuesday? Titanic Tuesday? South’s Stake Large On Super Tuesday James Clyburn and Victor Mcteer Vol. 9, No. 2, 1987, pp. 16-19 Sidebar: James Clyburn I want to thank you for inviting me here this evening, but before I say
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Remembering ‘Bud’ Garrett By Tom Rankin and Elizabeth Peterson Vol. 10, No. 1, 1988, pp. 12, 14-15 Robert “Bud” Garrett died on November 24,1987. Perhaps appropriately, he suffered a heart attack during his third game of the folk marble game
‘Time to Revitalize’ Southern Labor By Paul McLennan and Vicki Trifiro Vol. 10, No. 3, 1988, pp. 15-16 For William Winpisinger, the message to corporate America from the 5,000 workers gathered in an Atlanta parking lot on April 30 wee
H.L. Mitchell, 1906-1989 By Mike Land and Randall Williams Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 15 H.L. Mitchell, co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and a life-long Southern radical and activist, died August 1 in Montgomery, where he had
Memories of the Poll Tax Fight By Virginia Foster Durr with William Honey Vol. 14, No. 1, 1992, pp. 14-15 When I got to Washington in 1933 I began working with the Women’s Division of the Democratic Party. One of
Irreconcilable Priorities Reviewed by Thomas V. O’Brien Vol. 15, No. 1, 1993, pp. 25-27 Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond, 1904-1972, by Wayne J. Urban (University of Georgia Press, 1992, xii, 266 pages, photographs). Wayne J. Urban’s Black Scholar is a
The Engaged Observer Rob Amberg and Earl Dotter Vol. 17, No. 2, 1995 pp. 4-13 Editor’s note: In the following pages Southern Changes features the work of two excellent and widely recognized contemporary social photographers–Rob Amberg and Earl Dotter–accompanied by
Georgia: Scapegoats and Resentments By Marti Keller and Lane Goldberg Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 p. 6 The rhetoric surrounding the current debate over welfare reform plays on the growing insecurity in the U.S. today, appeals to our desire to
A Question of Power: Race and Democracy in Rural Electric Co-ops By Henry Leifermann with Pat Wehner Vol. 18, No. 3-4, 1996 pp. 3-15 Throughout rural America, few institutions are as powerful, economically significant, and effectively unregulated as electric and
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Massive Electrical Resistance: The Struggle for Democracy at Mecklenburg Co-op By Henry Leifermann and Preston Quesenberry Vol. 18, No. 3-4, 1996 pp. 16-17 For well over a decade, Cora Tucker, a civil rights activist and founder of the grassroots organization
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