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Civil Rights Movement. Notable works. Strange Fruit (novel) Partner. Paula Snelling. Lillian Eugenia Smith (December 12, 1897 – September 28, 1966) was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known for both her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944).
May 7, 2024 · A chronicle of Southern writer Lillian Smith’s legendary novel “Strange Fruit” in honor of her birthday. by Erin Z. Bass. Georgia author Lillian Smith’s bestselling novel “ Strange Fruit ” was released in 1944. Dealing with the theme of interracial romance, it’s no surprise that the book was controversial and even banned at the time.
May 14, 2024 · May 14, 2024. SCREAMER MOUNTAIN, CLAYTON, Ga. — Lillian Smith was a Georgia writer, fearless activist, philosopher and teacher who has been gone for almost 50 years, but her spirit still hovers...
Jul 28, 2021 · Smith turned a searchlight on the workings of white supremacy and blasted conservative ideologies of both race and gender. She has, since her death, emerged slowly but steadily as a pivotal figure in attempts to redraw the boundaries of the literary and cultural renaissance in the mid-20th-century South.
Dec 19, 2018 · In 1954, Georgia writer and social activist Lillian Smith, white daughter of the Jim Crow South, wrote of white people telling the truth in a way that could liberate others. “The importance of breaking the silence,” she said, “lies in our willingness to give up pretensions to a power and perfection we had no right to in the first place.”
LILLIAN SMITH: BREAKING THE SILENCE. Not enough people remember Lillian Smith. She was one of the first white southern authors to crusade against the evils of segregation. Her novel “Strange Fruit” (1944) explored an interracial relationship in a small southern town. Her book “Killers of the Dream” (1949) explored the roots of white ...
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Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling debut novel by American author Lillian Smith that deals with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. Its working title was Jordan is so Chilly, but Smith retitled it Strange Fruit prior to publication. [2] .
