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

In the Magic City

...joints     some DJ breaks all his needles, some combo plays harder     than they've ever played, that someone, that anyone     will work just hard enough to shut the...

#209, Long Meter

...3) Awake, O heavenly wind, and come,    Blow on this garden of perfume:    Spirit divine, descend and breathe    A gracious gale on plants beneath.   4) Make...

Horton newspaper

Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...

Emporia newspapers

...HIS VICTIM Many People in For Hanging The Law Will Take Its Course The whole community is Arroused [sic] and Many People Are Anxous [sic] to Lynch the Niger [sic]....

Belle plaine newspaper

...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...

Wichita newspaper

...been a higher civilization. A negro rapist has been mobbed in one of its oldest communities, burned at the stake, chained, kerosened and burned alive, in strict accordance with the...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

As sung by Cas Wallin, Madison County, North Carolina When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw...