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

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Director, Min. Cassandra Greene, Director Ms. Hattie Lawson, Chair, Athens Area Human Relations Council Reenactment Timeline 3:00 p.m. - Leave First African Baptist Church for visitation of the Malcom and Dorsey gravesites. 4:45...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...so intense that they are forced to acknowledge their impotence."7Katz, 57.  It is the realization of this powerlessness that, in turn, becomes curative. Katz concludes: "Potency is the Lord's —...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...in New Mexico, though a strong essay that presents a similar argument to that made in Lynching Beyond Dixie, seems out of place here. The editors do not claim that...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...would write my love a letter that she might understand. I'd send it by the waters where the islands overflow And I'd think of my darling wherever she'd go. Way...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...reported that Mitchell was a troublemaker and a "Negro-hater" and that the mob was "composed of young hot-headed fellows, and not of the older and very best citizens of the...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...and that night, at the bar, somebody asked me what I'd been photographing and I told him, 'Oh just dirt by the side of the road. I've been photographing democratically.'"5Holzeimer...