Lillian Smith (author)
Lillian Eugenia Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known for both her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). Smith was a White woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality. She was a southern liberal who was unafraid to criticize segregation and to work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws at a time when such actions virtually guaranteed social ostracism.
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- Born in
- Jasper
- Educated at
- Peabody InstitutePiedmont University
- Awards
- 🏆 Georgia Women of Achievement🏆 The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
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1897
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Birth1966
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