The Beck Center for Electronic Collections at Emory University and the Southern Regional Council have recently launched an on-line, digital database for the study of civil rights and social justice history. The veteran writers and new voices who have written for the Council’s quarterly journal Southern Changes for more than two decades make the continuing movement for social justice come alive--often reporting stories before they became news in the mainstream press, consistently providing alternative interpretation. Now the analysis and observations of these writers is available to students, teaches, researchers, activists, public officials, and citizens--at no cost--from an on-line Web site and digital database (http://chaucer.library.emory.edu:8080/schanges.html).

Collaboration of the Beck Center for Electronic Collections and the Southern Regional Council provides an on-line, searchable database of Southern Changes. This digital archive contains full-length original articles, reviews, interviews, essays, and reports that explore the variety of social conditions and cultural issues affecting the South. By entering a key word (for example, “voting rights,” “desegregation,” “poverty,”), author, or date in the Web site’s search interface, researchers can located and retrieve appropriate articles from the back volumes of Southern Changes.

The launching of the Southern Changes digital database coincides with the commemoration of the 80 years of work by the Southern Regional Council since the founding of its predecessor organization, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, in 1919.

For more information, contact Ellen Spears Managing Editor, Southern Changes Communications Director Southern Regional Council 133 Carnegie Way, Suite 900 Atlanta, GA 30303-1024 espears @southerncouncil.org Phone: 404-522-8764, extension 52 Fax: 404-522-8791