Southern state governments in the late 1950s and early 1960s underwent a breakdown of democracy as serious and dangerous as Watergate. The same terrible principle that motivated Watergate controlled most of the region’s state houses. In reaction to the 1954 …
The big, middle-aged man, wearing his hard hat and heavy boots, breathes a long sigh as he pours himself a cup of coffee in the union hall (with such signs on the wall as “SST—Ours or Theirs?” showing the U.S. …
The eleven states of the South will be electing 7 governors, 5 U.S. senators, and 106 representatives in 1970. Whatever improvements might come in the elections of lesser officials, it seems a safe bet that the quality of those in …
The South has continued to change. The Klan and Citizens’ Councils were on the wane, were less relevant as the society seemed increasingly in a state of flux from the effect of new and contradictory forces at work on it. …
The almost esoteric controversy and clamor that have surrounded the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) show in clear perspective some basic facts about America in the time of the Johnson Administration: what’s happening to the poverty program, convolutions of …
The role of SNCC in the so-called Atlanta riots of September, 1966, gives some perspective on the black-power debate. In the first place, “riot” was probably too strong a term by ghetto standards. There was relatively little firebombing and property …
Selma and the March to Montgomery, so full of the hyperbole of hope, the promise that democracy would at last come to the South, marked an end to the direct-action phase of the civil rights movement. Since then, the emphasis …
