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

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...

Finding Media

Finding media is a big issue for us here at Southern Spaces. We’re constantly searching for new photographers to highlight in our Featured Images section, and we’re often tasked with...

Fort Scott newspapers

Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...

Olathe newspaper

 Olathe Mirror. "A Dastardly Assault." December 31, 1896. "Mr. Ross is an old citizen of Johnson county, and as the MIRROR goes to press he is lying in a critical...

Leavenworth newspaper

Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...

Lawrence newspaper

Lawrence Daily Journal, reprinted in Leavenworth Times. Untitled. January 24, 1901. "Kansas is again the recipient of columns of advice from other states. Other states should understand that this is...

Horton newspaper

Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...

Topeka newspapers

Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'"   TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...

Eskridge newspaper

Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...

Emporia newspapers

The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905.   NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...