Category: Social change

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Angolan refugees: one of the many by-products of the war

Angola: Battling for Birth

On November 11 the massive southwest African territory of Angola gained independence after 500 years of Portuguese colonial domination. But while the longest liberation struggle in black Africa has ended, the trouble is far from over. A bitter civil conflict among the three rival movements

Group of Southern Cotton Mill Operatives.

Graniteville, a Belated Introduction

Start from the river at Augusta, the Savannah with its slow churning delta batter of tidewater mud and mosquito larvae, and cross it into South Carolina. You’ll find yourself at the mouth of a small creek that for twelve miles has cut a deep valley

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“Lache Pas La Patate”: Cajuns In Transition

S.D. Courville is anything but a militant. He’s a furniture salesman, a fiddler, and a Cajun, but he’s not a militant. Yet, a southern Louisiana movement that borders on militancy makes him feel good about who he La. For the first time in his 70

A Grantville Family Portrait by Tom Friday (c. 1910)

An Agreed-upon Tale of Two Families

“It was gravely stated to them…that they were all, when they arrived at the cotton mill, to be transformed into ladies and gentlemen; that they would be fed on roast beef and plum pudding, be allowed to ride their master’s horses, and have silver watches

Joshua Nkono

Joshua Nkono: Rhodesia’s Leading Black

With his recent election as the new president of Rhodesia’s black nationalist movement, Joshua Nkomo finally gained the position for which he has long worked. Although an active nationalist for 20 years, the stout and personable leader previously held minimal power because of competition from