From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...his compatriots took up arms against the United States in order to preserve a society based on slave labor and white supremacy. Stephanie Batiste-Bentham, an African American interpreter who worked...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...April 2010, the Scottsboro Multicultural Foundation secured a permanent home for the museum, the former Joyce Chapel United Methodist Church, whose congregation had dwindled. Just a few blocks from the...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the United States. Along Auburn Avenue in the Fourth Ward on the east side, where most of Atlanta's Black elite lived, a new stage of enterprise unfolded. An African American...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...this region that includes counties with some of the highest rates of poverty and highest percentages of Democratic voters in the United States. "I truly thank him for coming. It...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...gerrymandering; voter suppression; voting patterns) Pandemic voting (voting rights; ballot initiatives; mail-in voting; voter access; United States Postal Service) Political activism (social justice; movements and mobilization; countermovements; grassroots efforts; the...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...teaches modern United States history. He is the author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) and Defending White Democracy: The...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...ideas and activism. Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019) forever alters readers' perception of the national map, outlining the extent and...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
Introducción El dramaturgo Abel González Melo nació en 1980 en La Habana, Cuba, mismo año en que el Exodo del Mariel vio a aproximadamente 125,000 personas huir de su país, un evento que dramatiza...