Southern Exposure is an award-winning print journal and magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation and won several awards, including a National Magazine Award and two George Polk Awards, for its writing and investigative reporting on a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues in the South.

Vol. 22 No. 2 - Summer 1994
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Magazine cover with photo of children running off a school bus, reading "Black, White and Borwn: The hard lessons learned 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education"

Black, White and Brown

  • From the Editor

    2

  • Roundup

    3

  • Followup

    8

  • The Great Riverboat Gamble

    Mississippi bets floating casinos will pay off in jobs and taxes, but the wager has also raised rents and highway deaths. By Jenny Labalme

    10

  • "What Tomorrow Can Bring"

    Four decades after Summerton won its historic fight for integration, segregated schools still hold the town back. By Jeff Miller

    16

  • Remembering the Good

    Vanessa Siddle Walker uncovers the forgotten history of segregated black schools. Interview by Eric Bates

    24

  • Along Freedom Road

    How black citizens in one North Carolina county staged a year-long boycott to save their schools. By David Cecelski

    30

  • Beyond Brown

    A new court battle has sparked a massive political struggle to save black colleges and extend educational diversity. By Isaiah Madison

    36

  • "Use What You Have"

    White flight impoverished many public schools, but one community group enriches education by tapping human resources. Interview by Eric Bates

    40

  • Fiction: Holding Ida

    By Darnell Arnoult

    43

  • Voices: Racial Reading

    By Jerry W. Ward Jr.

    47

  • Junebug: Fattening Frogs

    By Junebug Jabbo Jones

    50

  • Freeze!

    The shooting death of Yoshi Hattori in Louisiana carried a clear warning: Don't disobey the man with the gun. By Moira Crone

    52

  • Reviews: Visions of Freedom

    By Brenda Stevenson

    61

  • Resources

    63

  • Still the South: Swamps

    By Mary Lee Kerr

    64
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