Portrait of the Georgia author and civil rights activist Lillian Eugenia Smith, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender...See morePortrait of the Georgia author and civil rights activist Lillian Eugenia Smith, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions virtually guaranteed social ostracism. Written by
Ulf Kjell Gür
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