"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...document for inquiry into civil rights movement history and journalism. Popham, Egerton, and their colleagues continually use the language of war to describe the milieu of race relations reporting, but...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...makes it impossible to listen to this music without wanting to tap or spin or leap or sway like a toddler getting used to her feet. The visual style also...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...built there because they had already claimed land concessions in the area. Powell’s book chronicles the town’s history from the time of Bienville to the Battle of New Orleans, explaining...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). It was easy to get out; people did it all the time. With a day pass, you could catch a bus...
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,...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Americans use the centennial to establish “the justice and equality which were the dream of the founding fathers and . . . the inalienable rights of every American citizen.” Many...
Georgia Postcard
...safe when you're not. IIII. Green How you would love the pale green trees, the sheer chartreuse light, the swallowing kudzu, the mammoth dogwoods, the Christmas tree farm. Published...
No Place
...You Think Of?" is also available on Southern Spaces. Cover Image Attribution Abandoned bridge over the Cahaba River, January 10, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user MK Hardy. Creative Commons license...