I am thinking of my sister, 1987 March 7.

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I am thinking of my sister, 1987 March 7.

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The collection consists of Esther Smith's manuscript "I am thinking of my sister," in which she reflects on the life of her sister Lillian Smith. Lillian Smith lived most of her life in Clayton, Georgia, where she ran a camp for girls and was a writer, journalist, publisher, and civil rights activist.

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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...

Smith, Esther L., 1895-

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In the summer of 1935, Esther Smith, a 23-year-old high school teacher, was a member of a group of young, professional, single women on a bus tour of the American West. The tour was offered by the summer travel program, "University of Tours." The group was chaperoned by a male college professor, a principal driver, and a back-up driver. The University of Tours was described as "an educational institution on wheels." The California portion of the tour included stops in San Francisco, Yosemite, Lo...