The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
A Collective Effort Staff Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997 pp. 2, 26 With this issue, Southern Changes celebrates the SRC’s civil rights radio documentary series, Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Perhaps even more than most documentary productions, the radio series
Democracy Demands Memory By Julian Bond Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997 pp. 3-4 “I tell my children today they don’t know anything. You know, when I hear young folk talking about what they ain’t gonna take, and I like to
People Who Made the Movement Staff Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997 pp. 5-20 The voices you hear in the radio series, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? are edited and assembled from of a treasure trove of more than 250 interviews
The Making of Will The Circle Be Unbroken?: Beyond the Printed Word Staff Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997 pp. 22-26 When Black Belt Press publisher Randall Williams suggested in 1978 that the Southern Regional Council publish a guidebook to civil
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Prejudices and Hopes By Ellen Spears Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997 pp. 28-29, 31 The personal stories in Will The Circle be Unbroken? remind us how recently American apartheid shed the force of law, and at what costs the changes
Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Program Listings Staff Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997 p. 30 PROLOGUE Race relations and social conditions across the American South prior to World War IL Written by Julian Bond. >COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA The use of
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Another Dry, White Season Wendy Johnson Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 1, 3-4 President Clinton’s call for a national conversation on race comes at a pivotal time, a time when the neoconservative misuse of “color-blind” rhetoric has encouraged a
News and Blues: Minority Journalists in the South, Twenty-Five Years Later Reginald Stuart Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 5-9 Editors Note: Twenty-five years ago in July-August, 1972, Reginald Stuart wrote the “Survey of Southern Black Journalists,” for SRC’s South
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Get Back! The Resegregation of America’s Schools By Linda Blackford Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 9-11 The city of Charleston, West Virginia, took an unusual approach to school integration in the fall of 1956: It moved black children into
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Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools By Gary Orfield, Harvard University; Mark D. Bachmeier, David R. James and Tamela Eide, Indiana University Harvard Project on School Desegregation Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 11-18 Introduction After the Supreme Court outlawed
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