Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
Image Credits
...KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March 7, 1967. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018....
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...the mid-1950s served to perpetuate the trope of the faithful and contented slave (204). Denmark Vesey Monument, Hampton Park, Charleston, South Carolina, September 29, 2018. Photograph by Brenda J. Peart....
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...appropriate, by external subject matter experts. View selected blog post examples below: Solomon, Eric. "Love and Death in Mississippi." Southern Spaces, August 16, 2018. https://southernspaces.org/2018/love-and-death-mississippi/. Suitts, Steve. "States' Rights Resurgent:...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...work in the Depression-era South, particularly against the Dixiecrat bloc and voter suppression. I've also watched Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, a short documentary film on the 2018 midterm elections...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...The Most Dangerous Woman in America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), and most recently, Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)....
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Brickner, October 12, 1961, box 5, folder 8, Rothschild Papers, 1933–1985, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta. Rothschild was active in a number of liberal organizations, including...