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

The Civil Rights Archive

Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...to Civil Rights Images."8Maurice Berger, "A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images," Lens, New York Times, July 16, 2012, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/a-different-approach-to-civil-rights-images/.  It is precisely the unexpected poetic quality of Parks's seemingly...

The Liminal Site

Red Mountain Garden Location of Smith's house, Birmingham, Alabama. Copyright GoogleMaps, 2013. My backyard garden is sited on the steep north slope of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, about sixty...

Mississippi Delta

...for land ownership during Reconstruction and asserted their political rights in the Delta, and even with the restriction of political rights at the end of Reconstruction, African Americans continued coming...