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

Whiskey and Geography

...of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was oblivious to whiskey’s centrality, the whiskey rebels showed Americans that citizens had to be involved in their own governance. Whiskey had linked farmers politically,...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...American Studies at King's College London and studies photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art. See Prof. Howard's Southern Spaces presentation: "The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan."...

Birmingham, Alabama images

...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...

Jackson, Mississippi images

Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...

Atlanta's Black Population

Maps for Figure 6, Andrew Wiese, African American Suburban Development in Atlanta Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 29 September 2006 © 2006 Andrew Wiese...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...lethal injection and the first African American executed since 1967.  McCarthy, convicted of robbing, beating, and stabbing to death a seventy-one-year-old emeritus professor of psychology, was injected with one large...

The Bulletin—April 24, 2013

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In Atlanta, two historic African American churches potentially stand in the way of plans to build a new, billion-dollar football stadium for...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...director Rick Sklar called the override a "terrible shame," stating that the group is prepared to sue in order to block the enforcement of the new law. African American legislators...