The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Budget Woes and Partisan Politics Block Election Reform By Lisa Rab Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001 pp. 6-13 Despite the initial scramble to introduce legislation responding to the election chaos in Florida, very few Southern states passed comprehensive election reform
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A Closer Look: The Florida and Georgia Experiences By Catherine Wall Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001 pp. 14-17 The 2001 state legislative sessions witnessed very little progress towards comprehensive election reform. Only two southern states–Florida and Georgia–passed meaningful legislation to
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Felon Disfranchisement Bars Many from Voting By Lisa Rab Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001 pp. 22-25 More than 200,000 people could not vote in Florida’s presidential election last year because of laws barring ex-felons from voting. Similar laws across the
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Many Birminghams: Taking Segregationists Seriously Reviewed by David J. Garrow Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001 pp. 26-32 REVIEWS Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home, Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2001. Charles
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Remembering and Forgetting Reviewed by Bland Whitley Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001 pp. 32-34 David W. Bright, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Boston, Harvard University Press, 2001 As recent debates over the continued use of the
Democracy at Home Charles S. Johnson, III Vol. 23, No. 3-4, 2001 p. 3 Following the tragic loss of thousands of lives in two of our most diverse cities, our nation is struggling with feelings of suspicion, insecurity, and fear.
One Nation, Unquestionable: The News Media Responds to September 11 By Patrick Wehner Vol. 23, No. 3-4, 2001 pp. 4-7 Amid the pulse of satellite uplinks, videophones, webcasts, and tickertape displays, the taglines manufactured by the news media in the
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Hate in the News: Violence Against Arab Americans and Muslims Kelvin Datcher, Southern Poverty Law Center Vol. 23, No. 3-4, 2001 pp. 8-9 In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September
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Race, Class, and Reconciliaton By Dan T. Carter Vol. 23, No. 3-4, 2001 pp. 10-13 People of color have had to deal directly with issues of race for all of this nation’s history; they couldn’t avoid it. For those defined
Southerners in South Africa: The World Conference Against Racism By Gwen Robinson Vol. 23, No. 3-4, 2001 pp. 14-15 On August 29th Rev. C.T. Vivian, the celebrated Atlanta civil rights activist, walked into the Non-Governmental Organization Forum (NGO) of the
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