An inconvenient woman the extraordinary life of Lillian Smith, the southerner who defied Jim Crow America
"A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregation in America only to be forgotten by history. Born in Florida to a religious family, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was a white Southern woman liv...
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2026.
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| 245 | 1 | 3 | |a An inconvenient woman : |b the extraordinary life of Lillian Smith, the southerner who defied Jim Crow America / |c Keri Leigh Merritt ; foreword by Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b St. Martin's Press, |c 2026. | |
| 300 | |a xiii, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, photographs ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregation in America only to be forgotten by history. Born in Florida to a religious family, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was a white Southern woman living in the Jim Crow South who defied all stereotypes: She lived with her lover, Paula, first running a summer camp in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, and then a magazine, devoted to creating a new vision of the South, one that passionately championed equality and integration. Smith published Black and white writers, a rare feat in those days, and herself wrote articles instructing white Southerners on why they shouldn't support segregation-Smith firmly believed racism hurt white Americans, too. In 1944 she published a bestselling novel, Strange Fruit, which became a national sensation and was banned in Boston and Detroit. The FBI began a file on her, she received death threats, and her house caught fire three times, twice intentionally, resulting in the loss of all her works-in-progress and her correspondence. Undaunted, she continued her ardent fight against segregation, maintaining correspondence with some of the great leaders of her day, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, W.E.B Dubois, Paul Robeson, and Pauli Murray. She continued to fight for both civil and human rights throughout the 1960s, helping nurture many of the activists in SNCC and CORE, only to succumb to cancer in 1966. Drawing on previously unpublished archival research, and with a modern appreciation of Smith's complex identity, AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN is the definitive account of a woman who defied all expectations and dedicated her life to racial equality"-- Provided by publisher. | ||
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