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Voting Rights and the Court: Drawing the Lines By Laughlin McDonald Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 1-6 On the last day of the 1993 term, the Supreme Court handed down one of the most controversial voting rights decisions of
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Lillian Smith: Poet Among Demagogues By Margaret Rose Gladney Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 8-9 Internationally acclaimed as author of the controversial novel, Strange Fruit (1944), Lillian Smith was the most liberal and outspoken of white mid-twentieth century Southern
A Letter from Lillian Smith to Gerda Lerner By Lillian Smith Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 10-11, 14 Today Gerda Lerner is celebrated as a pioneer in women’s history and a leading scholar in U. S. history. Before she
A Life in Letters Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 15-16 How Am I to be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith, edited by Margaret Rose Gladney (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1993, 384 pages).
Dogpatch, USA: The Road to Hokum By Rodger Brown Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 18-26 In May of 1968 cartoonist Al Capp motored into the Ozarks of north Arkansas smoking custom-rolled cigarettes, wearing dark glasses and a tailored English
Martyr and Killer: Two Lives and Alabama Reviewed by Rev. Francis X. Walter Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 27, 29-30 Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, by Charles W. Eagles (The University of North
Thurmond Reviewed by Tom Terrill Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 30-32 Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change, Nadine Cohodas (Simon and Schuster, 1993, 574 pages). This is a workmanlike, well researched, but narrowly conceived study of one
Changing Appalachia Reviewed by Tal Stanley Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 32-35 Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change, edited by Stephen L. Fisher (Temple University Press, Philadelpia, 1993, 365 pages). One of the first things I
Notable Re-releases Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 35-36 Willie Mae, by Elizabeth Kytle, has been re-issued again, this time by the University of Georgia Press. First published in 1958, an earlier re-release of this book
Living Out Here Reviewed by John Howard Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 36-39 Greetings from Out Here by Ellen Spiro (1993, 57 mins., video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL