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

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...during Congressional hearings in both Houses.3See Hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, on H.R. 1407, H.R. 1731, H.R. 2942, H.R....

The Crowd He Becomes

...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...

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....

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&amp 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...