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Mississippi Makes Up Its Mind By Rims Barber Vol. 5, No. 2, 1983, pp. 8-9 The passage of an educational reform package by the Mississippi Legislature was an important victory for public involvement. Pushing the legislature to act on the
Union Power, Soul Power: The Story of 1199B and Labor’s Search for A Southern Strategy By Leon Fink Vol. 5, No. 2, 1983, pp. 9-20 Hospitals are one of the last centers of employment in the United States to be
Almost Family. Roy Hoffman. The Dial Press, 1983. By Trudier Harris Vol. 5, No. 2, 1983, pp. 21-23 White mistresses and their black maids have intrigued many generations of American writers. From the stereotypical portraits of the nineteenth century, to
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The Color Purple. Alice Walker. Harcourt, Brace, 1982. By Rose Gladney Vol. 5, No. 2, 1983, pp. 23-24 Speaking at the University of Florida in 1962, Lillian Smith observed that women were only beginning “to break the million year silence
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South Without End By Steve Suitts and Allen Tullos Vol. 5, No. 3, 1983, pp. 1-2 The South has been born again in the gospel of American presidential politics. “The South is the Key” was the shorter catechism which brought
Blacks to Gain Senate Seats In South Carolina By Jack Bass Vol. 5, No. 3, 1983, pp. 3-4 After years of resistance, the all-white South Carolina senate voted thirty to eight in February to adopt a single-member district reapportionment plan
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Building On Fire By Patricia Derian Vol. 5, No. 3, 1983, p. 3 All the groaning that the presidential campaign has begun too early is surprising. It seems to me that it isn’t coming a minute too soon. The questions
Striving Toward Democracy. Report of the Southern Regional Council, 1980-1982 By Staff Vol. 5, No. 3, 1983, pp. 5-16 The Southern Regional Council, the South’s oldest biracial organization, consists of 120 Council Members in eleven Southern states. The work of
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Witness In Montgomery By Randall Williams Vol. 5, No. 4, 1983, pp. 1-6 Not since the celebrated bus boycott of 1955-56 or the Selma March days of 1965 has the atmosphere in Montgomery, Alabama, been so charged with racial tensions.
Denial of Tenure At Vanderbilt By Frye Gaillard Vol. 5, No. 4, 1983, pp. 7-8 By almost any measure, the last year has been a good one for Elizabeth Langland. Her first two books, published by the University of Chicago