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

Sonic Zora in Florida

...newer version of the Soundscriber Hurston would have used, New York, 1944. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in Public Domain. Bottom, Zora Neale Hurston with Rochelle French and Gabriel Brown,...

"Aint that Something?"

...a misfit: "Willet stood in front of me, breathing through his mouth, and I wanted to squeeze his big soft head. The feeling was new and strange" (258). "A hole...

States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act

...http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Redistricting-debate-hears-new-argument-4655908.php. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange called the decision "an important victory for the fundamental constitutional principle that all states enjoy equal sovereignty."15"AG Strange Praises the US Supreme Court for...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...such as James Hicks who covered the trial for several African American newspapers, Murray Kempton of the New York Post, and even Emmett's mom Mamie Till-Mobley, praised the prosecutors. The...