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Ruling in McKinney Surplus Property Case By Staff Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 23 A homeless support group in Huntsville, Ala., has lost a federal court action aimed at forcing the U.S. Navy to make an unused warehouse available
Affordable Housing Shortage at Crisis Stage By Staff Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 23 A growing lack of affordable housing has reached a crisis stage for blacks and Hispanics, as well as for low income Americans in general, according
Mergers in South Texas Colleges By Elaine Davenport Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 24 The largely Hispanic population of south Texas now has a better opportunity to get the same quality of higher education as Texans living in other
The Price of Empire by J. William Fulbright, with Seth P. Tillman. (Pantheon Books, 1989. xi, 243 pages. $17.95) By Leslie Dunbar Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, pp. 27-28, 30 Radicals would do well to read this book by the
The Cold Hard Truth By J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, pp. 32, 31 On a morning in the midst of the Bill Lucas furor, I completed an informal poll in the skyscraper building which houses both local
Native Southerners By Theda Perdue Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 1, 4-8 Southerners do not think very much about Indians unless, of course, they are vacationing in the Great Smoky Mountains or perhaps south Florida where the Cherokees and
Land of Deepest Shade: An Interview with John McWilliams Tom Rankin Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 10-14 EDITORS’ NOTE: “Land of Deepest Shade,” an exhibition of more than a hundred photographs by John McWilliams, is currently on view at
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Portraits from Slavery. Reviewed by Emory S. Campbell Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 15-16 Winslow Homer’s Images of Blacks by Peter H. Wood and Karen C.C. Dalton (University of Texas, 1989. Paper, 144 pp. $19.95.) Until the civil rights
A New Heaven and Earth. Reviewed by Mary James Dean Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 16-18 The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. 416 pp. $19.95.) Alice Walker in The Temple of
Victorian Reformer. Reviewed by Harold G. Fleming Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 18-19 Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer by Jacqueline Anne Rouse (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1989. 192 pp. $25.) If a truly definitive history of