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

Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies

Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

This morning when I went to play the scales the strings of the guitar were so cold they might have slept all night in the Holston's South Fork. And the...

Junction City newspaper

...south has been cruel to the negroes; that they have bulldozed them from the polls with shot-guns and other means. Denial or explanation does no good. The south now sends...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...2000, President Bill Clinton and Coretta Scott King led a thirty-fifth anniversary crowd of twenty thousand. Urging celebrants to "look at the South on the other side of the bridge,"...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...

Rising Up

Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....