The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
‘My Soul Is Rested’ Stirs Unrest In Marketing By Bill Cutler Vol. 1, No. 2, 1978, pp. 16-18 “White people don’t have much experience in running into that sort of prejudice. It fills you with a powerless anger. So I
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Southern Newspapers: Watching the Watchdogs By Larry Noble Vol. 1, No. 10, 1979 pp. 19-23 Daily newspapers play a key role in the lives of the people of the South. The papers provide us with commercial and economic information, with
The Making of a Ghetto By Bob Powell Vol. 2, No. 2., 1979, pp. 17-20 For Southerners who weren’t raised in them, federal housing projects are often visualized as inner city creatures of high crime with vandalized shells where rats
Atlanta Blacks Lose in Special Election By Boyd Lewis Vol. 2, No. 3, 1979, pp. 9-10 It’s the hottest political secret of Atlanta, the city “too busy to hate”, that the unhorsed barons of the old White power structure are
French Images of the American South By Thomas Noland Vol. 2, No. 6, 1980, pp. 8-13 PARIS – As French television viewers watched in horror, 12 men leaped out of two vans and a car, crouched, and began firing guns
Big Profits and Little Pay in South’s Backwoods: Woodcutters Organize (Part II) By Wayne Greenhaw Vol. 3, No. 2, 1981, pp. 14-17 Page 15 Woodcutters have generally been considered the bottom of the barrel when you are talking about agriculture
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“Covering History as it Broke” John N. Popham Harry Ashmore Vol. 6, No. 1, 1984, pp. 17-19 In 1947, when he first stopped in at my office at the Charlotte News, John Popham was the only newspaper correspondent assigned to
Popham: “Avoiding the Hit and Run Press” By Eleanor Mccallie Cooper Vol. 6, No. 1, 1984, pp. 19-22 “Just call it as you see it, John, anything that you can see in the South, the enormous changes that are about
Figures of speech–High Tech Drifter By Allen Tullos Vol. 6, No. 2, 1984, pp. 1-3 There is an unmistakable glint in Dirty Gary’s eye as he takes point blank aim at the man who holds the Democratic Party hostage. “Go
The Press as Company Store, Atlanta Style By Eric Guthey Vol. 10, No. 6, 1988, pp. 8-10 To doubt the current charming presentations of Southern growth and prosperity is to bring anathema on one’s head. What! The South not prosperous.