How Lillian Smith Challenged Segregation Through Writing, Education, and Activism

Historian Keri Leigh Merritt joins the conversation around An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, her biography of Georgia writer and civil rights advocate Lillian Smith. Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya explore Smith’s relationship with Paula Snelling, her work at Laurel Falls Camp, the literary magazine South Today, and books including Strange Fruit and Killers of the Dream.