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

The Black Belt

...the term 'Black Belt,'" commented Booker T. Washington in 1901: So far as I can learn, the term was first used to designate a part of the country which was...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...or other federal benefits, and county USDA offices purposely squeezed black farmers out of farming. Paradoxically, the flight of African Americans from the land coincided with the civil rights movement,...