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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...the colored car. Jim Crow car, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1929. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell...

Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology

...Federal Express handles more than one million packages each night through its Memphis superhub, approximately one-third of FedEx packages shipped worldwide. Because the company dominates the overnight delivery market, Federal...

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

...of darkened cars.5"Drive-in theater," Wikipedia; "Interactive Statistics," Drive-ins.com, http://www.drive-ins.com/stats.htm. The drive-in's popularity was short-lived. By the 1960s, their numbers began to decline. In the 1970s, many fell victim to suburbanization....