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. 11 No. 5 - September/October 1983
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The Meaning of the McSurely Case: A Seventeen Year Inquisition

  • Letters From Our Readers

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  • Readers Corner

    The girl in the madman’s march, by Imani Taylor

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  • Southern News Roundup

    Coors floods South; Oak Ridge poisons; marijuana myths; success against utilities; Japanese trucks made-in-USA; is slavery debatable?

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  • Facing South

    Sharon Winters: Fiddling Her Way to the Top, by Nancy Callahan

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  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    Progressive tax revolt, East German peace movement

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  • Resources

    Truth in textbooks, songs of struggle, grass roots fundraising

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  • Reviews

    The Way We Lived, Exit 13, The Selling of the South, The Crescent Review

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  • Voices From the Past

    Freedom or Affluence, by Frances Ellen Watkins

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  • American Inquisition Part I

    Part I: The Trial of Alan and Margaret McSurely, by Charles Young

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  • American Inquisition

    Part II: Political Repression in the 1960s, by Anne Braden

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  • Shalom Y’all

    The Jewish Community of Memphis, by Rachelle Saltzman

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  • The Correct Thing

    Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Palmer Institute, by Tera Hunter

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  • Dew

    Poetry, by Freedom Justina Nubee

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  • Recycling and Cashing In

    Poetry, by Sheryl L. Nelms

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  • Ruth in the Silver River

    Fiction, by Cheryl Hiers

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  • Patchwork

    Oral histories of grandmothers, by Dee Gilbert

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  • Southern Comic

    Jerry Clower and the country comic tradition, by Tom Chaffin

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