The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
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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Both Race and Class: A Time for Anger By Dan T. Carter Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 19-22 As we look at the economic changes in the United States over the last quarter century, we can see that a
Canton, Then and Now By Tom Dent Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 23-24 In his most recent book, Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement, author Tom Dent revisits some cities and towns in the South to
Cora Tucker (1938-1997) Staff Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 30-31 On June 21, 1997, Cora Lee Mosley Tucker, a long-time community activist and educator from Halifax, Virginia, died. Tucker led a life of tireless activism, most of which was
Frank Parker (1940-1997) Staff Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 p. 31 Civil rights lawyer and voting rights advocate Frank R. Parker passed away on July 10, 1997, after suffering heart complications at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. He