The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
The Reagan Impact On the South’s Poor By Steve Suitts Vol. 4, No. 2, 1982, pp. 15-16 More than three decades ago, after the country had climbed up from the Deep Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt said that the South was
Reagan’s Way of Eliminating Poverty By Steve Suitts Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp. 11-12 Last month the Census Bureau confirmed that Southerners remain closer kin to poverty than anyone else in the country. Southern states, as of 1980, continue
Local Color Defaulting On Justice By Steve Suitts Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 1-3 Long lines at the Supreme Court building in Washington are commonplace as tourists and school kids come daily to walk the halls and rummage the
Checking the Teeth of Change By Steve Suitts Vol. 5, No. 5, 1983, p. 6 The obvious changes in Southern politics usually deserve our most intense suspicions, and Mississippi’s recent democratic primary election for the state legislature is only the
Kissing Honest Politics Goodbye, Again? By Steve Suitts Vol. 5, No. 6, 1983, pp. 1-3 George Wallace’s election with significant black support in Alabama in 1982 reaffirmed that politics makes strange bedfellows in the South. This November, Bill Allain’s close
Changing Decades By Steve Suitts Vol. 6, No. 5, 1984, pp. 4-8 This year, Southern Regional Council marks the fortieth anniversary of its founding. Today, as in the past, the Council’s vision of the South’s future radiates from a belief
The Rising Tide of Poverty By Steve Suitts Vol. 7, No. 1, 1985, pp. 5-8 “A rising tide lifts all boats,” President Reagan explained four years ago when asked how his administration’s policies would affect the poor. l hose were
Games Registrars Play By Steve Suitts Vol. 7, No. 2, 1985, pp. 1-2 Two decades after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, no one really knows how many black citizens are registered to vote in the South today. While
The Poverty of Policy By Steve Suitts Vol. 8, No. 3, 1986, pp. 1-3 In late August the casualty list for 1986 in America’s half-hearted war on poverty revealed that fourteen percent of Americans were living in “official” poverty (an
Do the Right Thing. Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee. By Steve Suitts Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 26 A scene late in Spike Lee’s movie, Do Thc Right Thing, depicts white firefighters trying to hose down the blazes
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