The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Undemocratic America: A Former Secretary of Labor Explains Our Trend Toward a More Imperfect Union, and Offers Some Recipes for Change By Ray Marshall Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 8-14 TODAY, AS IN THE PAST, America has a tendency
Son Ham’s Hat By Connie Curry Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 15-17 I first met Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter in January 1966. I was Southern Field Representative for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker service organization. My
A chorus for freedom and sell-determination Reviewed by Mary A. Twining Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, p. 23 World Music of Struggle: We Shall Overcome, Folkways/Columbia/Smithsonian tape (CT 47850), produced by Worth Long, Ralph Rinzler and Don DeVito. At a
A complex web of irony and contradiction Reviewed by Gene L. Davenport Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 24-25 Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South by John Egerton. (Louisiana State University Press, 1991, 268 pages). John Egerton has
A mythical vision of a non-meddling military Reviewed by Charles Bussey Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 25-27 Negative Intelligence: The Army and the American Left, 1917-1941 by Roy Talbert, Jr. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991, xiv, 303 pages).
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A strong figure in a tumultuous era Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 27-29 Chronicles of Faith, The Autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson, edited by Martia Graham Goodson, with a foreword by Harry V. Richardson (University
A brave voice in the wilderness Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 29-30 Simple Decency & Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963, by Linda Reed. (Indiana University Press, 1991. 257 pp.). In a half-century of
Voting rights denied By The Editors Volume 14, No. 3, pp. 1-4 George Bush celebrated the July 4th weekend this year with the most flagrantly anti-democratic act of his presidency—the veto of the National Voter Registration Act. The bill, which
The Salt of Memory— Nostalgia, Class, and the Lesbian in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe By Julie Wilson Volume 14, No. 3, pp. 5-11 “Of course, most of the house is all boarded up and falling down
Bill Minor’s Forty-Five Years of Progressive Journalism By Michael L. Cooper Vol. 14, No. 3, 1992, pp. 12-17 Bill Minor received a call in late 1947 from A. J. Liebling, media critic for the New Yorker. Liebling had read the
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