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

Mississippi Delta

...labor shortage that promoted the consolidation of farm lands, diversification of crops beyond cotton, and the mechanization of plantations. Beginning with the Dixiecrat movement of the 1948 presidential campaign, the...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...https://www.nae.net/church-and-faith-partners/what-is-an-evangelical. To be sure, this is a longstanding assertion. However, recent narratives of religion in the civil rights movement by scholars such as Jonathan S. Bass and David Chappell have...

Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.

Amos Kennedy Print, Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. On March 15, 2016, acclaimed printmaker Amos Kennedy, Jr. participated in a public conversation about...

The Border South

...shape these states increasingly were understood and understood themselves as on the border. They contained various sub regions and economies, but all allowed and, indeed, promoted slavery. Virginia, for example,...

Topeka newspapers

Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'"   TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...bodies in the trees, twirling legless. I sang until morning. I sang, and the white ones were here sniffing an empty breast. They are here but I cannot die. My...