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Would You Let Us Starve To Death: Textile Workers in Search of a New Deal

August 1, 1987 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 15 No. 2, "Worth Fighting For." Find more from that issue here.

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Search for the Garden: Planned Communities

By Mike Smathers

March 1, 1980 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 8 No. 1, "Building South." Find more from that issue here.

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Black silhouette of a large person holding a pitchfork in the center, with eight smaller human silhouettes in various poses

“King Cotton”: The Federal Theatre Project

By John O'Connor

March 1, 1978 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 6 No. 1, "Packaging the New South." Find more from that issue here.

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Such As Us

By Tom TerrillJerrold Hirsch

March 1, 1978 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 6 No. 1, "Packaging the New South." Find more from that issue here.