Strange fruit by Lillian Smith materials, 1945.

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Strange fruit by Lillian Smith materials, 1945.

The collection consists of correspondence, clippings and a program regarding the dramatization of Strange fruit.

0.1 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7331732

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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...