Vol. 23 No. 3/4 - Fall/Winter 1995

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Targeting Youth

• From the Editor

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• Roundup

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• Followup: A Mirror Case

  By Kevin Alexander Gray

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• The Office of Civil Wrongs

  You think your office politics are bad? Check out the Dallas Office of Civil Rights, and you'll stop complaining. By Carol Countryman

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• Targeting Youth

  By Ron Nixon

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• Working in Harm's Way

  Young people are working long hours in dangerous occupations. But little attention is paid to their health and safety. By Ron Nixon

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• Wrong Side of the Track

  Advanced placement and programs for gifted and talented students provide a legal way to continue racial segregation in the schools. By Herb Frazier

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• Learning War

  Southern high schools are suckers for the Army's Junior ROTC programs. By Sam Greene

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• Drawing in the Kids

  A lot of people have given up on this generation of young people. Not tobacco companies. By Christopher Richburg and Terri Boykin

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• An Interview with Marian Wright Edelman

  The founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund gives the Republicans hell. By Terri Boykin

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• Resources

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• Fiction: The Counting Time

  By Anne Marie Yerks

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• Voices: Mi Diario

  By Erasmo Ramirez

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• Junebug: So That's Where Junebug Came From

  By Junebug Jabbo Jones

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• Blueprint: Bringing Water

  By Monica Jones

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• Review: Children's Books and the South

  By Roberta Herrin

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• Unflinching Eyes and Redeye

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• Still the South: Death Penalty

  By Molly Chilson and Wendy Grossman

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