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. 27 No. 3 - Fall 1999
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Magazine cover with black and white photo of male miner in hard hat with dirty face, text reads "Digging for the Truth"

Digging for the Truth

  • From the Editor

    2

  • Around the Institute

    4

  • Southern News Roundup

    5

  • Followup: Will SOA Rest in Peace?

    By Chris Kromm

    11

  • The Greek Divide

    Fraternities and sororities remain bastions of segregation. Will it end? Should it? By Diane Roberts

    12

  • Photo Essay: Forty-five Years after Brown

    A camera sees separation in the "yet to be United States of America." By Alan Wieder

    16

  • From Selma to Sorrow

    The unknown story of the only white woman honored on the Civil Rights Memorial. By Mary Stanton

    22

  • The Cry Was Unity

    The Klan's murder of five activists in Greensboro on November 3, 1979, marked a turning point in the struggle against racism. By Anne Braden

    27

  • Dust, Deception and Death

    Despite laws on the books, black lung still claims thousands of miners' lives. By Gardner Harris, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)

    34

  • Mystery Illnesses

    Hundreds of people living near federal nuclear weapons facilities are suffering from health problems. Why didn't the government investigate? By Laura Frank, Susan Thomas & Robert Serborne, The Tennessean

    40

  • Mining the Mountains

    Strip mining and mountaintop removal are pitting communities against King Coal. By Ken Ward, Jr., Charleston Gazette/Sunday Gazette-Mail (West Virginia)

    45

  • At 11, Littlest Shooter had a Life of Guns

    One town's story in the tide of school violence. By Jim Adams, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)

    50

  • Fiction: Stand by Your Man

    By James Ladd Thomas

    58

  • Reviews

    64
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