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

Unquiet Emmett Till

...in Money, Mississippi, in August 1955 and was lynched for it—catalyzed men and women into an irresistible movement for change. He's right; so many people roughly of Till's age when...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...a Presbyterian church near Charleston. In his diary entry for August 26, 1771, a month after Richardson's death, he wrote, On Friday night, when I came to town, was informed...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

..."St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A Visual History." Southern Spaces, September 28, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/st-augustines-slave-market-visual-history. McClintock, Diana. "Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art." Southern Spaces, May 28, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/gordon-parks-atlantas-high-museum-art. Pooley,...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...