Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent

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Thirteen southern journalists, historians, and politicians ? including Jimmy Carter, Dan Carter, Anthony Dunbar, among other self-styled ?southern progressives? ? argue in Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent that the nation is on the wrong path. Dunbar writes: ?Always a minority force?whether speaking against slavery, segregation, or the oppressiveness of a society in which power and privilege reign supreme?progressives in the South have learned that opposition to injustice is a hard duty, not an enjoyable right.? Three of the authors of Where We Stand will speak in a special Miller Center Forum. Paul M. Gaston, who was raised in the utopian colony of Fairhope, Alabama, and was a Professor in the History Department of the University of Virginia from 1971 until his retirement in 1997, contributed a chapter titled ?My Yellow Ribbon Town: A Meditation on My Country and My Home,? and will open the discussion at the Miller Center. He will be joined by co-authors Gene Nichol, Dean and Burton Craige Professor at the University of North Carolina Law School, and Les Dunbar, who served as executive director of the Southern Regional Council during the turmoil of the 1960s; he is most recently the author of The Shame of Southern Politics.