Lillian Smith Papers 1915-1972 1935-1966

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Lillian Smith Papers 1915-1972 1935-1966

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/smith.htm

The papers of author, editor, and civil rights leader, Lillian Smith, include her manuscripts and short writings, biographical material, and correspondence, business records, and manuscripts for the journal The South Today.

11.5 Linear feet; 24 boxes

eng,

Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966

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"Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. From as early as the 1930s, she argued that Jim Crow was evil ("Segregation is spiritual lynching," she said) and that it leads to social moral retardation."--"Lillian Smith (1897-1966)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 18, 2008: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. From the descri...