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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...“negro.” This official action during the Jim Crow era resulted in the flight of many of the state’s Native Americans.   Debra H. Rodman, Exhibition guest book, Library of Virginia,...

States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act

...Education, which declared that segregation—separate and unequal—was unconstitutional. In the era of massive white resistance to court-ordered desegregation, white political officials justified their actions on the basis of states' rights...

A City Divided

...the hopes that the black populace would follow. They organized meetings between white political leadership and school and African Methodist Episcopal Church officials. They offered cash. They offered land. And...

Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus

...district—would ultimately fade as public officials, business leaders, and area residents "generally supported the board's policies" and approved the schools' performance through the 1980s and into 1990s (22). However, as...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...one of the most famous women in America. Local officials locked her up to keep her away from strike zones, but she always said she could raise more hell in...