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

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

...2017, www.npr.org/2017/03/08/515814287/heres-whats -become-of-a-historic-all-black-town-in-the-mississippi-delta. Businesses and bank of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, ca. 1912–1920. Photograph by Milton McFarland Painter, Sr. Image is in the public domain. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of...

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...moderate position. The Charlotte he governed had a Democratic majority city council and a business class that epitomized the state's "progressive" tradition. Once elected with a heavily Republican legislature, he...

Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising

...buildings with hand-stenciled and freehand advertising for local businesses. Such work suggests that small-business advertising can be a collective endeavor, relying on neighborhood talent and artistic vision. About the Photographer...