Far from the storm centers of the American civil rights movement, off-camera and outside most reporters' beats, countless, nameless individuals reached their ow

For over three decades John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South. He is the author or editor of thirteen books about the region. Despite his disclaimer con

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Transcripts of hearings on the mass media before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, October 16 and 17, 1968 and December 18, 19,