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

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...Registration and Voting, Washington, DC, 1963, 13–14, 65. Most states had few polling places in minority and poor communities. Most southern states had voting rolls with more dead white people...

The Chesapeake Bay

...there near extinction. When these boats moved up the Bay into Maryland waters, that state responded with regulations prohibiting dredging and requiring in-state registration of vessels. In the late nineteenth...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...

Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History

...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...Congress in 2006 after lawmakers concluded that racial discrimination during elections, redistricting, and voter registration did, indeed, still exist. In 2011, Shelby County—an Alabama county that previously fell under the...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...