Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...New York University Press, 1997): 241–284. Elizabeth Anderson contributed the epilogue to this updated version. Photographer unknown, Charis Books and More, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. During the 1970s, members of a...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Macon, Georgia, where southern music impresario Phil Walden had recently opened Capricorn Records and studio. There he joined Alex Taylor's (brother of James Taylor) band Friends and Neighbor for a...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...rights, and spaces demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural populations immigration, refugees, and citizenship incarceration, internment, and the carceral state public health, healthcare policy and access climate change and...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs, 7–38. Just prior to the passage of the federal Marihuana Tax Act, Harry J. Anslinger, first and long-time commissioner of the Federal Bureau of...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...as the Environmental Defense Fund, and how grassroots organizations have long been critical of the overwhelming white, middle-class staffing and policy orientation of well-funded national groups based in Washington, DC....
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...to primary sources, is a core part of Wikipedia’s policy. , more Wikipedia users (read: almost everybody online) will have access to high quality information and ideas. At the same time,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Judge William E. Miller gave the schools six more months to draw up a plan that would comply with the Supreme Court's desegregation decrees. Then, in March of 1956, the...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...when an explosion tore through the school annex of Miami's Orthodox Temple Beth El. Such was the strength of the blast that local residents thought a plane crash had woken...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...I applaud his attention to the details of the conservative ascendancy in the late 1960s and 1970s. As the narrative develops over the course of six chapters, however, we lose...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...New England told by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx in her 2016 novel, Barkskins. The subject of a 2020 dramatic series streaming on the National Geographic channel, Proulx's book portrays...