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

Putting up Beans

...burners gassed up blue, I filled four steel washtubs with seventy pint jars each-- forty if they were quart sized Masons. The barn itself layered in rafters for hanging sticks...

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...

Birmingham, Alabama images

...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...

Jackson, Mississippi images

Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...

Atlanta's Black Population

Maps for Figure 6, Andrew Wiese, African American Suburban Development in Atlanta Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 29 September 2006 © 2006 Andrew Wiese...

Ellipsis

...its place, Wind in the willows, a whiff of something sweet, something sour, something always in its place.   Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December...

LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72

...Journal Constitution.6Michael Kahn, "Review: Gallery 72, former home to the AJC, sparks new life into Marietta Street," ArtsATL, May 1, 2014, http://www.artsatl.com/2014/05/review-gallery-72/. The LiFT Team (from left to right: Jordan Streiff, Shady Patterson, Miriam...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...lethal injection and the first African American executed since 1967.  McCarthy, convicted of robbing, beating, and stabbing to death a seventy-one-year-old emeritus professor of psychology, was injected with one large...

The Bulletin—April 24, 2013

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In Atlanta, two historic African American churches potentially stand in the way of plans to build a new, billion-dollar football stadium for...