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

Encountering COVID

...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...March, and gave rise to the national clamor that assured the Voting Rights Act became law. Aerial view of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 1965. Since 1965, the Edmund...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...both groups struggled for civil rights, pursuing courtroom strategies, exercising the franchise, and marching—and both achieved significant victories. Yet, "unification largely eluded these groups," argues Behnken. "Instead, two separate civil...