Lillian Smith letter, 1949 November 11.

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Lillian Smith letter, 1949 November 11.

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The collection consists of one letter from author Lillian Eugenia Smith to Kelsey Guilfoil, a book critic from the Chicago Tribune. The letter is typed on Smith's personal stationery with her Old Screamer Mountain, Clayton, Gerogia letterhead. In it, Smith thanks Guilfoil for the wonderful review of her book, Killers of the dream.

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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...

Guilfoil, Kelsey

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