Vol. 30 No. 3 - Fall 2002

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Underground Pastime

• Front Porch: Letter from the Editor

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• Field Work: The Institute in Action

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• Southern News Roundup

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• Running from the Truth

  Across the country, the Texas-based Komen Foundation sponsors the popular Race for the Cure breast cancer charity. It also opposes patients' rights, and takes money from polluters and pharmaceutical companies. By Mary Ann Swisher

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• Scottsboro, Alabama: Lost Political Art and the Recovery of a Radical Legacy

  The recent rediscovery of pamphlet art by 1930s labor activists puts the Scottsboro Nine, and the radical movement to free them, back in focus. By Robin D. G. Kelley

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• Underground Pastime: The Hidden History of the Negro Leagues

  Before Jackie Robinson broke the major leagues' color barrier, the Negro Leagues were a major African-American institution that tested the limits of Jim Crow and changed the face of baseball forever. By Gary Ashwill

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• From Spitballs to Scottsboro: Recollections of Negro League Pitcher Frank "Doc" Sykes

  "The pitching dentist" looks back on his baseball career and his testimony at the Scottsboro trial. Interview and Commentary by John Holway

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• Reviews

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