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

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...

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...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...services such as food, shelter and drug treatment programs without providing job-readiness and employment placement programs result in only modest success at helping clients avoid re-incarceration. The lack of work...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...will defeat me and my tribe. Who is he to imagine he will kill me with his songs, sacred or commonplace? Who is he to be sure that his spirits...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...until its closure in 2009. Operating once a week, it attracted both local and out-of-state buyers. Initially, the auction sold both cattle and hogs, gaining a reputation as one of...

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...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...in the so-called annals of history, and that we have to look in unexpected places to find our past. Lesbians in Roanoke in the 1980s devoted an entire issue of...