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

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...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...of the Civil Rights Movement (Boston: Bedford, 1994); Stephen J. Whitfield, A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till (New York: The Free Press, 1988). Mace also repeats...

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

...remarks. Ten of the contributions ultimately dwell upon a theme familiar to historians of Louisiana after its incorporation into the American Republic: the "development and contestation of a racial order," as...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...Europeans, migrating from a different disease zone outside the tropics, suffered more than Africans from malaria. The wealthiest white elite, who could afford to escape the sickly summer and fall...

Congregation

Believe the report of the Lord; Face the things that confront you.     Marquee (front and back),      Greater Mt. Rest Baptist Church,      Gulfport, Mississippi, May 2009   Witness...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...years of squabbling that its melody was beyond the register of ordinary people, for example, Congress in the 1930s finally made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem. A few years...

Mississippi Delta

...century later, writer Richard Ford called the Delta "the South's South." In the 1990s, historian James Cobb referred to it as the "most southern place on earth." Few other regions...