Laurel Falls Camp papers, 1944-1947.

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Laurel Falls Camp papers, 1944-1947.

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The collection consists of photocopies of papers concerning Laurel Falls Camp. These items include a letter to Mary Marbut, a letter to counselors, a receipt to Mary Marbut for money given to Lillian Smith to back the play Strange Fruit, printed material describing the camp, a play entitled I Am America, and Laurel Leaf newsletters to counselors, parents and campers.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7555227

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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...

Laurel Falls Camp.

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Marbut, Mary Jane

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