Southern Spaces

Print Materials

Beardsley, John and William Arnett, et al. Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. Atlanta: Tinwood Books and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002.

Chestnut, J.L. Jr., and Julia Cass. Black in Selma. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

Clay, James W and Paul D. Escott, Douglas M. Orr, Jr., and Alfred Stuart. Land of the South. Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1989.

Raper, Arthur F. Preface to Pesantry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936.

Rogers, William Warren, and Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Thomson, Bailey ed.. A Century of Controversy: Constitutional Reform in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.

Washington, Bokker T. Up From Slavery. Norton Critical Edition. William L. Andrews, ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.

Wright, Richard. Black Boy (American Hunger) in Later Works. New York: Library of America, 1991.

Wimberley, Ronald C. and Libby V. Morris.The Southern Black Belt: A National Perspective. Lexington: TVA Rural Studies and The University of Kentucky, 1997.

Weblinks

Slavery in 1860, U. S. counties. Visit the American Memory site and Search for "map showing the distribution of the slave population". http://memory.loc.gov/

Twenty Five Years in the Black Belt: Electronic Edition. First person history by William Edwards, b. 1869. (From Documenting the American South. Univ. of NC). http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/edwards/edwards.html

"The Black Belt: Alabama's 'Third World'" series of articles in The Birmingham News 2002. http://www.al.com/specialreport/birminghamnews/?blackbelt.html

J. R. Moehringer's 2000 Pulitizer Prize winning portrait of Gee’s Bend, an Alabama Black Belt river community.
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2000/feature-writing/works/

A recent effort to configure the broadly-defined southern Black Belt into a federally-authorized commission along the lines of the Appalachian Regional Commission has not succeeded. (From Vinson Institute, University of Georgia). http://www.cviog.uga.edu/spotlight/news/item.php?id=19

Mohr, James and John Nicols, "Cotton Production in the American South: 1790-1860" interactive map from Mohr and Nicols, eds., Mapping History: The Darkwing Atlas Project, Department of History, University of Oregon.

Barry, Dan. "Legacy of School Segregation endures, Separate but Legal," New York Times, Sep 30, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/30land.html?_r=1&oref=slogin