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Affirming the Affirmative By Jack Bass Vol. 17, No. 1, 1995, pp. 1-3 In the middle of the current debate over affirmative action, a moment taken to revisit recent history turns out to be surprising, ironic, and instructive. Readers with
Gone Country: Cecelia Tichi and the Politics of Writing About Country Music By David E. Whisnant Vol. 17, No. 1, 1995 pp. 4-10 Cecelia Tichi, High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
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Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana By Adam Fairclough Vol. 17, No. 1, 1995 pp. 12-18 When I began this study, in 1987, my perceptions of the civil rights movement had been formed during ten years of
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Ayers v. Fordice: An Update By Faye McDonald Smith Vol. 17, No. 1, 1995 p. 19 In our last issue, (Winter ’94), we ran a detailed article about the twenty-year-old Ayers desegregation case of higher education in Mississippi. In March
A Day Late? By David J. Garrow Vol. 17, No. 1, 1995 pp. 20-23 Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 704 pp. $35.).
‘Walking from the Tombigbee’ An Introduction to Minnie Bruce Pratt By Kim Whitehead Vol. 17, No. 1, 1995 pp. 23-27 In the mid-1950s, Minnie Bruce Pratt’s mother worked as a social worker and sometimes took her daughter along when she
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Willful Retreat From Justice Selwyn Carter, Director of SRC Voting Rights Programs Vol. 17, No. 2, 1995 pp. 1-3 In this thirtieth anniversary year of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the United States Supreme Court is busily erecting new barriers
The Engaged Observer Rob Amberg and Earl Dotter Vol. 17, No. 2, 1995 pp. 4-13 Editor’s note: In the following pages Southern Changes features the work of two excellent and widely recognized contemporary social photographers–Rob Amberg and Earl Dotter–accompanied by
The Last Innocents: The Civil Rights Movement and the Teaching of High School History By James W. Loewen Vol. 17, No. 2, 1995 pp. 14-17 In 1974 Pantheon published the first revisionist textbook of state history in the United States,
BOOKS: Not So Quiet Anymore. Reviewed by Pamela S. Karlan Vol. 17, No. 2, 1995 pp. 18-19, 21 Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990, edited by Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman (Princeton University