The Black Belt
...the Selma to Montgomery March with MLK, Alabama, March 25, 1965. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the Public Domain. The Selma to Montgomery March, now commemorated by a...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Geography and Map Division, 74693187. Referencing literal as well as metaphorical maps and mapping, Paulett's first chapter persuasively establishes the tension between imperial efforts to control trade and local resistance...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...the time of the 1967 decision, fifteen other (mostly southern) states (Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, West Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Delaware)...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Rose Anderson. "Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space." Southern Spaces, November 3, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/atlantas-charis-books-and-more-histories-feminist-space. Solomon, Eric. "Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida." Southern...
Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...town of Oxford. Angeline's daughters mainly remained in Oxford and married into local families; nearly every long-term African American family here traces descent back to one of these "Sims" women....
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Spaces, January 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/unhappy-trails-big-easy-public-spaces-and-square-called-congo. Trethewey, Natasha. "Geography." Southern Spaces, January 11, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. Saikku, Mikko. "Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta." Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta....
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...civil rights. Locations of state parks in the South highlighting facilities made available to African Americans between 1937 and 1962. Map by William O’Brien. Originally published in William O’Brien’s Landscapes...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Voting Rights Act, Justice Kegan's dissent suggests she knows law better than history. She mentions "a march from Selma to Birmingham." It was in fact the Selma to Montgomery march...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Southeast, and West Coast. He also gives plenty of space to African American journalism, sometimes folded into his geographical schema (the Chicago Defender is a midwestern publication, the California Eagle...