The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
In Country, a novel by Bobbie Ann Mason. Harper &Row 247 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 8, No.1, 1986, pp. 20-22 The tumultuous decade of the 1960s still hovers over us like a great gray cloud, a mighty
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Gradualism, South Africa, and Civil Rights By Steven F. Lawson Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 1-3 In February 1986, a white student from the University of Cape Town in South Africa paid a visit to my campus at the
Women in the Rural South: Scraping a Living from Two-bit Jobs By Barbara Ellen Smith Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 5-8 Southern working class women are survivors. No message emerges as vividly from the stories in this booklet, Picking
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Women in the Rural South: Toward Economic Equity By Leslie Lilly Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 5, 8-11 There is a sense of place and time about the South that distorts even as it amplifies its outward character to
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Maggie Lee Sayre–A Glimpse of Shantyboat Life By Tom Rogers Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 12-14 Maggie Lee Sayre, born deaf, never heard water slap boat thwarts. Yet during her half century on the Tennessee River she compiled an
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The Risks at Oak Ridge By Joanne Thompson Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 15-16 Ever since World War II, under the protective umbrella of national security, nuclear facilities at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, have operated with minimal outside scrutiny. Companies
Millions of Pounds of Uranium–Oak Ridge Wastes Varied, Extensive By Debra Castaldo Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 16-17 The Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is owned and operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE).
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Claude Ramsay, 1916-1986 By Bill Minor Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 17-18 In death, Claude Ramsay belatedly was paid homage the other day by a lot of big politicians and some of his long-time foes around the Legislature as
Claude Ramsay-A Life for Mississippi workers By Steve Riley Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 19, 21 When Claude Ramsay retired late last year, the longtime Mississippi labor chief started shopping for a shotgun. After twenty-six turbulent years of fighting
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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee by Robert J. Norrell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. $19.95 Reviewed by Howard R. Lamar Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 21-24 In the preface to Reaping the Whirlwind: The