The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Politics and Medicine in a Small Southern Town By Seth Borgos and Joshua Miller Vol. 1, No. 1, 1978, pp. 11-12 The first time we heard of Dr. Wayne Smith he sounded like a character out of Ibsen or Sinclair
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When Shall We Overcome? By C. Eric Lincoln Vol. 1, No. 5, 1979, pp. 4-5 A man died. That was eleven years ago. A man died who ought not to have died: not because he was a Black man, but
Tribute to Gwendolyn Cherry By Staff Vol. 1, No. 6, 1979, pp. 2-3 On February 7, Gwen Cherry, the Vice-President of the Southern Regional Council, died in an automobile accident in Tallahassee, Florida. Her death leaves the Council without one
The Fears of Race Relations: Confessions of a White Pastor By Paul F. Wohlgemuth Vol. 2, No. 6, 1980, pp. 4-6 After serving 11 years as a pastor in two churches in racially changing areas I have concluded that nothing
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Changing the Politics of Bitterness By Vernon Jordan Vol. 3, No. 1, 1980, p. 3 The year 1980 was when we saw the growth of politicized religion—a heady mixture of fundamentalist gospel with extreme right wing political ideology. It converts
Remarks in Memory Of Lillian Smith By Gene Gabriel Moore Vol. 4, No. 2, 1982, pp. 13-15 It is appropriate that we make what echo we can of Lillian Smith’s lifelong battle for those eternal lost causes–a classless society, uncompromised
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. By James H. Jones. New York: The Free Press, 1981. $14.95. By Bess Beatty Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 17-19 In 1972 the Associated Press broke the story of the Tuskegee experiment, a
The Color Purple. Alice Walker. Harcourt, Brace, 1982. By Rose Gladney Vol. 5, No. 2, 1983, pp. 23-24 Speaking at the University of Florida in 1962, Lillian Smith observed that women were only beginning “to break the million year silence
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“The Logic of the Majority” By Xabier Gorostiaga Vol. 6, No. 1, 1984, pp. 6-10 Xabier Gorostiaga: I was born in the Basque country in the north of Spain. My family was very persecuted at that time, after the Civil
John Egerton. Generations: An American Family. University Press of Kentucky, 1983. By Will D. Campbell Vol. 6, No. 1, 1984, pp. 23-24 For too long we have cataloged, systematized and categorized the places and ways of learning. And too often
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