Vol. 17 No. 1 - Spring 1989

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Meltdown on Main Street

• Dateline: The South

  Compiled by Susan Saenger

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• Southern News Roundup

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• Mississippi Still Burning

  Public employees are at the heart of the most importnat labor organizing the South has seen in years. By Ann Long.

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• Meltdown on Main Street

  Introduction

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• Q&A: The Savings & Loan Crisis

  Everything you wanted to know about the S&L mess—but were too bored to ask.

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• Outrage in Little Rock

  In Arkansas, where they say S&L stands for Squander and Liquidate, people are fighting mad. By Eric Bates.

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• A Blueprint for Financial Reform

  The Financial Democracy Campaign has a program that could solve two crises at once.

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• Blue Sky and Big Bucks

  The high-flying S&Ls of Texas were the first to fall, but the rest of America may not be far behind. By Curtis J. Long.

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• Redlining Black Faces

  When is the color of money black and white? When S&Ls are doing the lending. By Bob Hall.

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• Hill v. Board of Education

  Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation, Oliver Hill is still raising hell. By Mike Hudson.

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• Fiction: Songs of Men

  By Clyde Edgerton

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• The Story in Numbers

  By Bob Hall and Barry Yeoman

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• Southern Voices: Abolition Then and Now

  By Bruce Ledewitz

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• Book Reviews

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• New Blood for the Old Order

  Special Section Introduction

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• Warriors for the Cause

  Neo-Nazi leader William Pierce is trying to recruit children—with the help of some nice tax breaks. By Topper Sherwood.

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• A Deadly New Breed

  A murder trial revelas the ugly consequences of letting hate groups organize in your hometown. By Mab Segrest.

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• Southern Skinheads

  Neo-Nazi youth gangs have shattered the serenity of one Atlanta neighborhood—and the violence is spreading to the rest of the region. By Julie Hairston.

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• The Last Word

  By Allan Troxler

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