They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...bad or as sensationalistic as reported. Although indictments were made, no one was ever convicted for the lynching. Crisis, June 1911, 61. This turn of events was also undoubtedly influenced...
Naming Each Place
Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
...the Little Ivy Church Cemetery looking East on US 19, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...the end of 2014. Partners N Crime, Eastover, New Orleans, June 15, 2012. Photograph by Holly Hobbs. Courtesy of Holly Hobbs. Countless members of New Orleans' creative communities lost their...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Welcome to Liverpool South,” Washington Post, August 29, 1984. Bill King, “Athens: A City Attuned to New Wave-length,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, June 30, 1981. “Is Rock Dead?” People, January 17,...
J-Mill on Regulating
...Funk DJs and the Sugarhill DJs at block and house parties, as well as in battles against one another." Published: 10 June 2008 © 2008 Matt Miller and Southern Spaces...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Atlanta, Georgia, June 14, 1935, the son of William G. Egerton, a traveling salesman, and his wife, Rebecca White Egerton. The family settled in Cadiz, Kentucky, where John remained until...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...of a nationwide protest against the practice, organized by the National Afro-American Council in 1899.1Rev. D. A. Graham, "Some Facts About Southern Lynching," Indianapolis Recorder, June 10, 1899, reprinted on...