Letters to Rochelle Girson, [ca. 1960].

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Letters to Rochelle Girson, [ca. 1960].

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The collection consists of four letters from Lillian Smith to Rochelle Girson from ca. 1960. The letters discuss Ms. Smith's decisions regarding the selection of books on race relations for the Anisfield-Wolf Award including discussion of the works of authors Louis Lomax and Peter Ritson, her thoughts on Charles Dickens, and her recent cancer treatments.

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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403290

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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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...

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Girson, Rochelle.

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Lomax, Louis E., 1922-1970

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Ritson, Peter.

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