Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...in the US South and Hate and Extremism nationwide, visit the Southern Poverty Law Center. In addition, visit Robert T. Gonzalez, "An Interactive Map of Racist, Homophobic and Ableist Tweets...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
Southern Spaces: Malinda, tell us about your film Lumbeeland. Why and how did you come to work on this project? Malinda Maynor Lowery: Lumbeeland is a twenty-nine minute short narrative,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of The Indian Heritage of America and many other important books about Native Americans. Snyder was there and when he found out I was from South Carolina, he smiled and...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...show up in southern West Virginia or eastern Kentucky and open factories and offices. I wrote the Commons Communities Act after months of thinking about how the people of the...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America (Athens: NewSouth Books, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press, 2023). Earlier in his career, Suitts served as the...
Mississippi Delta
...century later, writer Richard Ford called the Delta "the South's South." In the 1990s, historian James Cobb referred to it as the "most southern place on earth." Few other regions...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...photographs. No image became more iconic, no place more marked by photographs than Birmingham in the days of Bull Connor's hoses and dogs. Martin A. Berger's fine book, Freedom Now! Forgotten...
Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...political culture of twentieth-century America, in particular, the US South. Crespino's first book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2007), examines segregationist politics...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...in Atlanta" (master's thesis, Emory University, 1993), 17. Laboring for Justice in Atlanta's Landscapes of Power Boosters promoted Atlanta as the "Jewel of the South," "City of the Twenty-First Century,"...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Constitution. Earlier in his career, Suitts served as the executive director of the Southern Regional Council, vice president of the Southern Education Foundation, and executive producer and writer of "Will...