Southern Exposure was an award-winning print journal published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation for its writing on a broad range of political and cultural issues in the South, with a special emphasis on investigative journalism and oral history.

On the 50th anniversary of Southern Exposure’s birth, Facing South and the Institute will be publishing a full digital archive of the journal over the course of the year. The initial installment of the archives available in March 2023 includes issues from the magazine’s launch in 1973 through 1981.

Vol. 13 No. 4 - July/August 1985
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To Agitate the Dispossessed

  • Readers Corner

    Edward H. Peeples, Jr., and John V. Moeser

    2

  • Southern News Roundup

    4

  • Facing South

    Hugh Agee

    11

  • Resources

    12

  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    13

  • To Agitate the Dispossessed

    Kaye Northcott

    16

  • Soapstone

    Gary D. Mawyer

    24

  • Gulf Coast Tenants Fight for Housing, Peace

    Richard Boyd

    28

  • Loss of Power

    Judson Mitchum

    37

  • P. H. Polk: Carry Me Home

    Lynn Duvall

    38

  • Death Watch

    Doug McCray, edited by Marcia Grann Schwen

    45

  • Warehoused

    Evans D. Hopkins

    52

  • The Key to Marie

    Evans D. Hopkins

    53

  • Counting the Dead

    Richard Blake Dent

    55

  • Reviews

    57

  • Bulletin Board of the South

    63

  • Voices from the Past

    William R. Amberson

    64
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