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

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...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...imposed higher car insurance fees. When Dr. King asked his brother if he knew anyone who could help, Alfred connected him with John Drew, beginning a relationship that would last...

The Shenandoah Valley

...Illustration. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-286d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Sheridan's raid went into local history as "the burning." Far...

Remnants of Flannery

...Chronicles, largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and...

Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses

...for them was the beginning of the end.  (0:28) Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (Narrator): Amid the racial tensions of the post-war South, Atlanta's white leaders promoted their hometown as, "a city too...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...