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

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...Ocoee, on the mount of said brow Where I once loved her dearly and I don't hate her now. Published: 15 April 2004 © 2004 Allen Tullos and Southern Spaces...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye.   Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers for Mister Weaver 1. Black Warrior speaks The night before they came, I walked on my river. I had strange dreams: bloody shouts to the sun,...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...River was published in 2004 by Henry Holt and Company. Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December 2007 © 2007 Ron Rash and Southern Spaces  ...

Emporia newspapers

The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905.   NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...

Memphis, Tennessee images

...Autozone Park is the home to the Memphis Redbirds, the AAA affiliate of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...

Leavenworth newspaper

Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...the bandannas with railroad men, and the simplicity of its construction may have seemed appropriate for a small boy. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...