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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 Belt

...decline. What had been one of America's richest and most politically powerful regions became one of its poorest. In the 1950s and 1960s, long-oppressed African American residents of the Alabama...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...encroachment of African American families into white neighborhoods. One of these individuals, Pete Garcia, later admitted that he had painted 'For Whites Only' signs in the neighborhood, threatened black home...