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

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...photographs. No image became more iconic, no place more marked by photographs than Birmingham in the days of Bull Connor's hoses and dogs. Martin A. Berger's fine book, Freedom Now! Forgotten...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...within each of them, of very different kinds of public and private narratives of struggle, allows us a view of the workings of prejudice in unlikely forms and places. To...

Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History

...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...