Notes of a Klanwatcher
Notes of a Klanwatcher By Randall Williams Vol. 4, No. 2, 1982, pp. 11-13 It’s easy and relatively safe, in 1982, to hate the KKK, but explaining why an anti-Klan movement is necessary, and getting those in that movement to
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Murder At Broad River Bridge. By Bill Shipp, Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1981, $8.95.
Murder At Broad River Bridge. By Bill Shipp, Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1981, $8.95. By Grant Wilson Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, p. 15 Lemuel Penn was killed without cause and anonymously by members of the Ku Klux Klan outside Athens,
Daddy’s Missile: Shaping the South’s Pre-war Economy
Daddy’s Missile: Shaping the South’s Pre-war Economy By Tom Schlesinger Vol. 4, No. 4, 1982, pp. 1-2, 23-30 In mid-May 1982, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Harvard’s Center for Science and International Affairs co-sponsored a meeting about
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Denton and Helms: The Enemies Within. Patriotism in Peace
Denton and Helms: The Enemies Within. Patriotism in Peace From the Arkansas Gazette Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, p. 9 Betty Bumpers’ Peace Links may draw from a remarkable episode in the United States Senate impressive reassurance that it is
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Figures of Speech–Dressed for the H Bomb
Figures of Speech–Dressed for the H Bomb By Allen Tullos Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 1-4 By any reasonable and fair-minded standard, our Southern members of Congress ought to have felt proud of the year they had as military
Witness In Montgomery
Witness In Montgomery By Randall Williams Vol. 5, No. 4, 1983, pp. 1-6 Not since the celebrated bus boycott of 1955-56 or the Selma March days of 1965 has the atmosphere in Montgomery, Alabama, been so charged with racial tensions.
The Freeze Down South
The Freeze Down South By Margaret Roach and Allen Tullos Vol. 5, No. 4, 1983, pp. 11-14 In the fall of 1982, the Nuclear Freeze Campaign mobilized the largest referendum drive in United States history. Over eleven million Americans voted
Demonstrating at Weapon World
Demonstrating at Weapon World By Dan Bernstein Vol. 5, No. 6, 1983, pp. 7-8 The people who gathered on a baseball field under cloudy skies were as diverse a group as you could imagine. There were teen-agers and grandmothers; doctors
The Second Greensboro Verdict
The Second Greensboro Verdict By James Reston, Jr. Vol. 6, No. 3, 1984, pp. 1-3 During the filming of “88 Seconds in Greensboro,” the PBS Frontline treatment of the 1979 Greensboro, North Carolina killings by Ku Klux Klansmen, I was
The Struggle Goes to Hollywood
The Struggle Goes to Hollywood By HRW Vol. 9, No. 5, 1987, p. 39 In the eyes of a South African filmmaker who has seen Cry Freedom while visiting the United States recently, Richard Attenborough’s epic film about Donald Woods