Letters to Ashley Montagu, 1956-1966.

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Letters to Ashley Montagu, 1956-1966.

The collection consists of correspondence from Lillian Smith to Ashley Montagu from 1956-1966. The letters discuss their involvement on the Anisfield-Wolf Award Committee, which was founded to encourage the publishing of books on race relations. The letters contain Smith's critique of the books that have been nominated for the award and some personal matters including her health and her writing.

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Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999

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Chairman, anthropology department, Rutgers University. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526480 Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) was a British anthropologist and social biologist, perhaps best known for his critical analysis of the question of race. Montague Francis Ashley Montagu was born Israel Ehrenberg in London, England on June 28, 1905. He studied at th...

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...