The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
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
Paying the Price In Pickens County By Kelly Dowe Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp. 13-14 When 69-year-old Julia Wilder of rural Pickens County, Alabama, was allowed to transfer from the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women to a work release
Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929-1959. Edited by Anthony P. Dunbar, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981. Allen Tullos Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp. 14-15 The past remains as unpredictable as ever. As proof, we have Tony
Murder At Broad River Bridge. By Bill Shipp, Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1981, $8.95. By Grant Wilson Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, p. 15 Lemuel Penn was killed without cause and anonymously by members of the Ku Klux Klan outside Athens,
Ending the Short Stick In Mississippi’s Woods By Tom Israel and Randall Williams Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp. 16-18 Pine trees are commonplace, but timber is an industry, especially in the South where forests stretch from Houston to the
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Ensley, Alabama: 1932 By John Beecher Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, p. 17 The mills are down. The hundred stacks are shorn of their drifting fume. The idle tracks rust . . . Smeared red with the dust of millions
The Race Toward Reapportionment By Staff Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp. 18-24 Billboards and television commercials of earnest faces and subdued colors are inviting many Southerners already to think about the virtues of candidates for the November elections. Back
Daddy’s Missile: Shaping the South’s Pre-war Economy By Tom Schlesinger Vol. 4, No. 4, 1982, pp. 1-2, 23-30 In mid-May 1982, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Harvard’s Center for Science and International Affairs co-sponsored a meeting about
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More Than Steel Mills Are Silent By Kelly Dowe Vol. 4, No. 4, 1982, pp. 3-5 Several times, thinking about it all, I’ve been taken back to the First Presbyterian Church in Montgomery. It is a particular Sunday in the
Black Political Participation in the 1980’s: Challenged by Conservatism By Alex Willingham Vol. 4, No. 4, 1982, pp. 5-11 Assessing the state of black politics today requires a fundamentally different approach from what would have been appropriate even ten years
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