- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Lillian Smith
- Date of Original:
- 1897/1966
- Subject:
- Women--Georgia--Clayton
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Clayton
Women civil rights workers--Georgia--Clayton
Political activists--Georgia--Clayton
Women political activists--Georgia--Clayton
Authors, American--Georgia--Clayton
Women authors, American--Georgia--Clayton - People:
- Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Clayton, 34.87815, -83.40099
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Lillian Smith's best-known work, Strange Fruit (1944), is a novel of illicit interracial love that gained its author national attention.
Photograph of Lillian Smith. She wears a necklace and has cropped hair. 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. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/literature-overview/m-418/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/lillian-smith-1897-1966
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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