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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
Beaufort Academy–“None Ever Applied” By George Mcmillan Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 3-4 If Congress wants to know how a typical tax exempt segregated school works in a typical Southern town it should look at Beaufort Academy in this
Fifty Years With Highlander By Sue Thrasher Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 4-9 At Christmas time in 1931 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a young man off an East Tennessee farm made a note to himself: I can’t sleep but there
Denton and Helms: The Enemies Within. Patriotism in Peace From the Arkansas Gazette Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, p. 9 Betty Bumpers’ Peace Links may draw from a remarkable episode in the United States Senate impressive reassurance that it is
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North Carolina Pays the Price By Claude Sitton Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 9-11 Americans don’t ask much of those whom they send to the U.S. Senate. A senator can usually pass muster at the polls if he tips
Worker Owned: Some Southern Beginnings By Woody Connette Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 11-15 In September 1979, a small group of Windsor, North Carolina residents transformed a vacant automobile showroom into a garment cut and sew operation. They chose
The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South. by John Ettling, Harvard University Press, 1981. By Allen Tullos Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 15-17 Toward the end of his study of the Rockefeller Sanitary
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. By James H. Jones. New York: The Free Press, 1981. $14.95. By Bess Beatty Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 17-19 In 1972 the Associated Press broke the story of the Tuskegee experiment, a
Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation. By Harvey Wasserman and Norman Solomon with Robert Alverez and Eleanor Walters, New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1982, $12.95. By John Northrop Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 19-20
Reapportionment Roundup By Staff Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 20-24 Reapportionment moved into the courtrooms across the South during the summer as federal judges were deluged with petitions and prayers for relief from lawyers of civil rights groups attempting