Vol. 24 No. 4 - Winter 1996
Art that Refuses to Shut Up & Shut Down
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Robert Franklin Williams
When the author of Negroes with Guns died recently, the world took note—except in his home of North Carolina. By Timothy Tyson
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Followup: Hamlet Casualties Continue
By Betsy Barton
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Fanning the Flames
The nvestigators seem to be missing what's right under their noses—who is responsible for church burnings and other acts of racial violence in the South. By Ron Nixon
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Burning Memories
A historian finds undercover documents about North Carolina's Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s. By David Cecelski
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Shut Up & Shut Down
Censored and defunded, artists in the South still hold their heads up. By Pat Arnow
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Portfolio
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Maxine Henderson in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Mona Waterhouse in Mobile, Alabama; Isabel Zamora in Fort Worth, Texas; The Road Company in Johnson City, Tennessee
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White Only on Main Street
When Missisippi Cultural Crossroads painted a mural, some Port Gibson townspeople saw red. By Emilye Crosby
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Out Loud
The people of Colquitt, Georgia, are facing their own stories. By Jo Carson
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Not Whistling Dixie
Arts activists Nayo Watkins and John O'Neal talk about making art for social change. By Meridith Helton
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Resources
Groups to keep freedom of expression alive.
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Blueprint for Change: Community Newspapers
By Eric Goldman
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Junebug: Southern Exposure's Storyteller: Bo Willie Strikes Again
By Junebug Jabbo Jones
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Voices from the South: On Race, Rage, and the Underclass
By Mansfield B. Frazier
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Reviews of Southern Media: It Comes from the People
By Jeanette Stokes
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Still the South: Whiskey
By Mary Lee Kerr
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