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

Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses

...Amid the racial tensions of the post-war South, Atlanta's white leaders promoted their hometown as, "a city too busy to hate." Yet, Atlanta, like many other southern cities, resisted school...

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...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...freedom. As the Bridge Crossing has grown in attendance and visibility, a diverse cast of civil rights, religious, and political figures, musicians and media celebrities, have walked the walk. In...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...