"A DASTARDLY CRIME: A Negro Assaults' [sic] a Lady Near Ponce de Leon Springs."
...negro could be found. "The negro is described as a low, chunky, brown skinned negro, and the police are of the opinion that he belongs in Atlanta." (Atlanta Constitution, (June...
Remnants of Flannery
...Wise Blood, was memorably brought to the screen in 1980 by filmmaker John Huston. Atlanta's Good Country Pictures has acquired the film rights to many of O'Connor's texts, planning to...
Single Centers of Creation?
Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...with Digital Historians." Southern Spaces, January 31, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/conversation-digital-historians. Pollock, Daniel A. "The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance." Southern Spaces, May 30, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/battle-atlanta-history-and-remembrance. Please submit proposals (350–700 words)...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...1961. Courtesy of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying seven Freedom Riders, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), traveled south from Atlanta...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...and we will continue to expand the range of subjects our educational materials cover. Upcoming resources will feature collections on music and sound cultures and the Atlanta Metro and Appalachian regions. To...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...to culture, race, ethnicity, labor, and migration. Her current book project, “Mexican Atlanta: Migrant Place-Making in the Latinx South,” traces the history of Metro Atlanta’s ethnic Mexican community formation and...
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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...
Failed Memory Exercise
...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...mouth is silenced now and it is worth every damn year of this bloody war. How do you like it, hey?" (144–45). Sherman's men destroying railroad, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864. Photograph...