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

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...for any immoral use.' By forcing Blacks to live in overcrowded areas, racially restrictive covenants 'imposed social disintegration, social pathology, and personal ill health on them' (47). As head of...

In Memory Hill Cemetery

I've come here to take a photograph of Flannery O'Connor's grave. With me are mockingbirds, robins, and cardinals, nervous, never lighting long, flitting from headstone to bough to picket. I...

Remnants of Flannery

...presence there to reveal themselves."24Nancy Marshall, "Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm," Southern Spaces, April 28, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/andalusia-photographs-flannery-oconnors-farm. About the Author Eric Solomon is an editorial associate at Southern Spaces...

Leavenworth newspaper

Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...

The Colonialist's Gaze

...included visual details of the transportation networks of primary and secondary roads, local trails, and railroads, as well as the agricultural environs. The archival research (upon which this illustrated lecture...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...Lancaster County, South Carolina. This account stresses several years of physical and mental decline and, underlying it, a temperament vulnerable to depression. This tendency is reported also in several other...