As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke openly against racism, segregation, and Jim Crow laws long before the civil rights era.
Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and nonfiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a...
As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an e...
As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke openly against racism, segregation, and Jim Crow laws long before the civil rights era.
Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and nonfiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a...
As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an e...