Category: Social change

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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

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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

political cartoon from South African paper

Rhodesia: Which Way at the Final Crossroad?

As the tenth anniversary of its unilateral independence from Britain approaches, the Rhodesian government faces the most dramatic decision in its history: settlement with black nationalists or war. Prime Minister Ian Smith has stalled on the issue of black majority rule for a decade and

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Women on the March

The Rhodesian political situation is in limbo now more than ever since the government of Prime Minister Ian Smith declared unilateral independence a decade ago. External forces in both black and white African countries are pressuring vehemently for a peaceful settlement between the white government