The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Hightower Chooses a Populist Agenda By Elaine Davenport Vol. 11, No. 2, 1989, pp. 4-5 Jim Hightower has a way forward for the Democrat. Party. In order to pursue his strategy, Hightower has decided to run for re-election as Texas
A Southern Exposure for Spring Planting By HRW Vol. 11, No. 2, 1989, pp. 5-6 As soil is being worked and gardens laid this Spring, it may be useful to remember that all seeds are not created equal, and that
H.L. Mitchell, 1906-1989 By Mike Land and Randall Williams Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 15 H.L. Mitchell, co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and a life-long Southern radical and activist, died August 1 in Montgomery, where he had
Hormone-free Texas. Beef Ships Out By Staff Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 21 Twenty tons of hormone-free Texas beef left the Port of Houston in late July on their way to European customers. The shipment was the first U.S.
Bear Poaching in North Carolina By Elaine Davenport Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 21 Hundreds of black bears are being poached in the southern Appalachian Mountains for their heads, hides, teeth, claws, feet, pads and gall bladders. “When we
“Like a Biblical chapter of begats crossed with land descriptions” Reviewed by Deborah Boykin Vol. 15, No. 2, 1993, pp. 24-25 Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America, by Daniel M. Friedenberg (Promethus Books, 1992,
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Bottom Rails Reviewed by Rebecca Sharpless Vol. 16, No. 1, 1994, pp. 25-27 The Origins of Southern Sharecropping, by Edward Royce (Temple University Press, 1993, 279 pages). Statistics on the South today are as bleak as ever: the highest poverty
BOOKS Contingent Lives Reviewed by Terry Easton Vol. 21, No. 3, 1999 pp. 19-21 Rebecca Sharpless, Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999 ; Neil Foley, The White Scourge: