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

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

...Wiese recounts how discrimination curbed the African American housing boom, leaving deep scars on the urban fabric Part 6: Dr. Wiese discusses how highway construction and urban renewal in the late...

Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies

..."connects scholars, activists and residents with one another around a shared interest in Atlanta." If Hatfield's essay on the T-SPLOST referendum inspires you to join this debate, please consider leaving...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

She follows the river trail downstream, leaving behind her parents and younger brother who till eat their picnic lunch. She is twelve years old and it is her school's Easter...

Birdhouses

...of birdhouses in the catalogue of a forty-two-year-old photographer who is the only member of his family to have moved outside a thirty-mile radius? These birdhouses, with one or two...

The Chimney

...will think of him, long ago pulling the penny from his pocket and pressing it against the drying chimney, leaving his long thumbprint swirling.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University...

Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937

This series of photographs by Arthur Rothstein depicts men and women in canning and packing plants in Winter Haven and Fort Pierce, Florida. While photographs of agricultural work appear throughout the Library...