Vol. 11 No. 1 - January/February 1983

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"We'll Never Quit:" Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens fight for clean water

• Readers Corner

  Reflections on the passing of the ERA deadline, by Carrie J. Knowles

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• Letters from Our Readers

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• Southern News Roundup

  Overcrowding in Southern prisons; Atlanta freeze referendum under right-wing attack; the Eddie Carthan case; and more

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• Voices of Our Neighbors

  The Law of the Sea Treaty; Missiles and the Mafia in Sicily

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• Facing South

  Subtropical Mobile, by Eugene Walter

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• Resources

  Alternatives to prison; How to do leaflets; Contemplating a lawsuit; and more

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• Reviews

  The Southern writer and The New York Times; The Redneck Way of Knowledge; and more

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• Voices from the Past

  From the frontline to the color line, Atlanta, 1898

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• I Ain't Lying

  Mississippi high school students look for their roots, from Mississippi: Cultural Crossroads

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• Taking on TVA

  Tennessee Valley ratepayers protest soaring electric bills, by Jim Overton

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• Linthead

  A poem, by Paul Rice

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• “You Don’t Have to be Grim to be Serious”

  interview with Mavis Belisle by Sam Totten and Martha Wescoat Totten

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• Some Keep the Sabbath

  A poem, by Linda Peavy

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• By the Way of Morning Fire

  a short story, by Michael S. Weaver

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• La Musica Nortena

  A photographic essay, by Scott Van Osdol, with text by Dan W. Dickey

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• "We'll Never Quit It"

  Concerned Kentucky citizens try to clean up Yellow Creek, by Michael E. Staub

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• Southern Books at Home on Campus

  What’s up with the university presses, by John Egerton

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• The Plantation Mistress

  A historical essay on her working life, by Catherine Clinton

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