The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Flag Waving Down South. How Long?: Battling an ‘Inappropriate Display’ By Earl T. Shinhoster Vol. 11, No. 1, 1989, pp. 12-13 [Editor’s Note:]On February 2, 1988, fourteen black legislators were arrested in Alabama as they symbolically attempted to scale a
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Flag Waving Down South: Searching History for Solutions By Michael L. Thurmond Vol. 11, No. 1, 1989, pp. 14-15 In the controversy surrounding proposals to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the Georgia state flag, one impression stands above all
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Writing and Doing: Women in Civil Rights By Joanne Grant Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, pp. 6 A spate of recent conferences has a common purpose: to assess the civil rights movement and place it in historical perspective. They have
Five Decades of Activism By Patricia Sullivan Vol. 12, No. 1, 1990, pp. 5-9 “THE SOUTHERN MOVEMENT provided a permanent flame from which the rest of the nation could draw inspiration, light and heat. You were always there burning, percolating,
Angela Davis: ‘Rekindle the Flame’ By Elaine Davenport Vol. 12, No. 1, 1990, pp. 10-11 Angela Davis, one of America’s best known activists of the 1960s and 1970s, encouraged an overflow crowd in Austin, Texas, on Martin Luther King Day
An Imperfect Assessment of Movement Flank Actions. Reviewed by Mary Nell Morgan Vol. 12, No. 1, 1990, pp. 12-13 Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1954 1970 By Herbert H. Haines (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1988. 244 pps.
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A Passionate, First-Hand Story of One Place in the Movement. Reviewed by Michael Cooper Vol. 12, No. 3, 1990, pp. 20-21 JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism by John R Salter Jr. (Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krueger
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Movement Profiles. L. W. D. Vol. 12, No. 5, 1990, p. 16 The Long Haul, an Autobiography by Myles Horton, with Judith Kohl and Herbert Kohl. (Doubleday, 1990. xvi, 245 pages.). Whitney M. Young, Jr. and the Struggle for Civil
A Reporter’s Retrospective of the Movement Reviewed by W. B. Ragsdale, Jr. Vol. 14, No. 1, 1992, pp. 23-25 Free at Last, The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It. Fred Powledge. (Little, Brown, 1991. xxiii, 711 pp.).
A brave voice in the wilderness Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp. 29-30 Simple Decency & Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963, by Linda Reed. (Indiana University Press, 1991. 257 pp.). In a half-century of