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

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation, their Mississippi adherents fervently fought against it (5). An armada of clerics, parishioners, various parachurch organizations (e.g. The Baptist Department of Negro Work, The...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...Jefferson Parish line at Southport to St. Bernard Parish, which lay far downriver, and the oldest residential neighborhoods in the city concentrated along this "sliver by the river." Dockworkers dominated...