The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Recognizing Activist-Scholars: 1999 Lillian Smith Award Winners Staff Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 1999 pp. 8-13 On November 6, 1999, the Lillian Smith Book Award for nonfiction was given to J. Morgan Kousser for Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and
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Race and Suffrage in the South Since 1940 Staff Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2000 pp. 8-9 In the June-July 1948 issue of New South, the Southern Regional Council published an assessment of the progress made toward unencumbered access to the ballot
The Federal Executive and Civil Rights Staff Vol. 22, No. 1, 2000, p. 15 In 1961 the SRC submitted a forty-eight-page report to the Kennedy administration entitled the “Federal Executive and Civil Rights” in which it advised the implementation of
Southern Changes Social Justice Database Now On-Line Staff Vol. 22, No. 1, 2000, p. 33 The veteran writers and new voices who have written for the journal Southern Changes for more than two decades make the continuing movement for social
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Young Voters Flee the Polls Staff Vol. 22, No. 2, 2000 pp. 8-9 If nonvoters constituted a political party in America today, far and away more citizens would belong to it than to all other political parties combined-and that party
Peace and Power: Earl Theodore Shinhoster (1950-2000) Staff Vol. 22, No. 2, 2000 p. 23 Life-long activist Earl Shinhoster was “one of the brightest stars in the human rights galaxy,” said SCLC President Emeritus Reverend Joseph Lowery at the June
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Racial Discrimination in Florida: Election 2000 Staff Vol. 22, No. 4, 2000 pp. 15-16 Testimony about racial discrimination in the Florida elections was received at a hearing sponsord by the NAACP on November 11. Following is one personal story from
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Why Don’t Youth Vote? Young People Respond Staff Vol. 22, No. 4, 2000 pp. 18-19 The following comments were excerpted from the Center for Voting and Democracy’s Spring 2000 youth essay contest which asked college and high school students to
SRC Study Contributes to Georgia Election Reform Staff Vol. 23, No. 1, 2001 pp. 13-14 Following the 2000 election debacle in which the shortcomings of the Florida election system came under national negative scrutiny, the SRC conducted a study of
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History and Memory: 2000 Lillian Smith Book Awards Staff Vol. 23, No. 1, 2001 pp. 17-22 Each year the Southern Regional Council hosts the Annual Lillian Smith Book Awards in honor of the most liberal and outspoken of white mid-twentieth
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