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

At Sun Ra's Grave

...hung in a bronze policeman's grip. Dew rises through the halflight, a gauze, departing wings. * One drifts in the neon glow of the church's sign, News wrapped tight around...

Atchison newspaper

Atchison Daily Globe . "The Leavenworth Lynching." January 17, 1901. "Nothing will be done about the Leavenworth lynching. The legislature will adopt resolutions condemning it; the newspapers will refer to...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...build networks of activism and care (13:40). Part Five Bridgforth on growing up in Los Angeles, raised by people from Memphis, and New Orleans, listening to stories, and writing to...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...block the enforcement of the new law. African American legislators in Arkansas have compared the new law to the poll taxes used in southern states during the Jim Crow era....

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...island. In addition to ongoing environmental study, extensive archaeological research has occurred at St. Catherines with regard to Native American settlements, the Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale, and...

Remnants of Flannery

Flannery O'Connor's place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the "favorite" of the sixty fiction winners of the...

Local Color

...rural, underdeveloped, and (in the case of the South) newly conquered regions. It is possible, however, that the readers of local color saw, or longed to see, something of themselves,...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...imposed higher car insurance fees. When Dr. King asked his brother if he knew anyone who could help, Alfred connected him with John Drew, beginning a relationship that would last...