Violence

Southern Chivalry Is Not Dead

In Riders on the Rides, Violence on 20 February 2012 with no comments

If Virginia does mandate vaginal ultrasounds be performed on women who want abortions, it will join the ranks of seven other states that currently impose the procedure. Surprise, surprise, five of them are southern — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas — and the other two are southern wannabes — Arizona and Kansas.
But then of [...]

Why ‘Kayo’ Hallinan Wasn’t a Freedom Rider

In Oral History, Violence on 26 February 2009 with no comments

The Freedom Rides were a model of several management principles en vogue, at least until recently, in the new economy. The Riders were strategically nimble, adeptly abandoning their original destination of New Orleans to pursue “jail, no bail” in Jackson. They employed just-in-time inventory controls: within a day or two of their arrival in one [...]