Lillian Smith

Dec 12, 1897 - Sep 28, 1966

Lillian Eugenia Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit. 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.
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“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”

Lillian Smith
Dec 12, 1897 - Sep 28, 1966
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