The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
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
Figures of Speech–Dressed for the H Bomb By Allen Tullos Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 1-4 By any reasonable and fair-minded standard, our Southern members of Congress ought to have felt proud of the year they had as military
Delta Politics and the Almost Possible By Rims Barber Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 4-7 During the recent redistricting process, black leaders felt that it would be impossible for a black candidate to Page 5 win Mississippi’s Second Congressional
The 1982 Lillian Smith Book Awards By Staff Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 7-10 The Southern Regional Council’s annual Lillian Smith Awards Luncheon was held in Atlanta in November as a part of the SRC’s annual meeting. The awards
Myra Page: Daughter of the South, Worker for Change By Mary Frederickson Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 10-12, 14-15 On a summer evening this past August, Myra Page sat surrounded by books, papers and manuscripts in her home of
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From Southern Cotton Mills and Labor, 1929, by Myra Page By Myra Page Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, p. 13 The next afternoon I went to see my friend, Marg. Marg was always a tonic, especially after such an experience
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Black Boss: Political Revolution in a Georgia County By Lawrence J. Hanks Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 16-18 Black Boss: Political Revolution in a Georgia County. John Rozier. The University of Georgia Press, 1982. John Rozier’s Black Boss is
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