Lillian Smith Award

Given by Southern Regional Council

Other Names: Lillian Smith Book Award
112 Works 41,972 Books 652 Reviews 4.0
The Lillian Smith Book Awards honors those authors who, through their writing, carry on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and show more human understanding. show less
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WorkYear
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity
2021
Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism by Jelani M. Favors
2020
John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights by Brandon K. Winford
2020
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools by Rachel Devlin
2019
Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor by Virginia Eubanks
2019
The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools by Vanessa Siddle Walker
2019
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
2018
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean
2018
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
2017
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s by Risa Goluboff
2017
Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow by Cheryl Knott
2016
Aaron Henry of Mississippi: Inside Agitator by Minion K. C. Morrison
2016
Looking back, moving forward : the Southwest Georgia freedom struggle, 1814-2014 by Lee W. Formwalt
2015
Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South by Andrew Maraniss
2015
In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma by Jr. Bernard LaFayette
2014
We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired by M. J. O'Brien
2014
Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II by Fran©ʹoise N. Hamlin
2013
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography by Randal Maurice Jelks
2013
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
2012
Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography by John C. Inscoe
2012
Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States by Steve Lerner
2011
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire
2011
The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss by Charles W. Eagles
2010
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (New Directions in Southern Studies) by Amy Louise Wood
2010
What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America by Ariela J. Gross
2009
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement by Bob Zellner
2009
In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution by Joseph Crespino
2008
Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America by Wesley C. Hogan
2008
The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South by Matthew D. Lassiter
2007
Native Guard: Poems by Natasha Trethewey
2007
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
2006
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams
2006
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie M. H. Camp
2005
Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America by Frye Gaillard
2005
The Untelling by Tayari Jones
2005
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
2004
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon
2004
Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (Kentucky Voices) by Frank X. Walker
2004
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South by William Henry Chafe
2002
Bombingham by Anthony Grooms
2002
Getting Right With God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995 by Mark Newman
2002
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health by Keith Wailoo
2002
Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South by Hal Crowther
2001
So Far Back: A Novel by Pam Durban
2001
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project by Robert P. Moses
2001
Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey
2001
Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle by Michael Keith Honey
2000
A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (Religion & American Culture) by Andrew M. Manis
2000
Troubled Memory by Lawrence N. Powell
2000
A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century by Leroy Davis
1999
Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction by J. Morgan Kousser
1999
Night Talk by Elizabeth Cox
1998
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis
1998
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
1997
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1997
Silver Rights by Constance Curry
1996
Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood by Michael D'Orso
1996
Trouble No More by Anthony Grooms
1996
Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 by Adam Fairclough
1995
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne
1995
Choices by Mary Lee Settle
1995
Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery by John Gregory Brown
1994
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer
1994
Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Jr Gates
1994
The Hard to Catch Mercy by William P. Baldwin
1993
Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama by Charles W. Eagles
1993
How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith by Lillian Smith
1993
The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman
1992
Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina
1992
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene
1992
Tongues of flame by Mary Ward Brown
1991
Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. by J. L. Chestnut, Jr.
1991
Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites by Wayne Flynt
1990
Clover by Dori Sanders
1990
Soldier's Joy by Madison Smartt Bell
1989
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
1989
Even Mississippi by Melany Neilson
1989
The Avenue, Clayton City by C. Eric Lincoln
1988
Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South (Brown Thrasher Books) by Melton Alonza McLaurin
1988
And Venus Is Blue: Stories by Mary Hood
1987
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage by Pauli Murray
1987
A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts 1920-1936 by Richard Samuel Roberts
1987
Blessed Assurance: At Home With the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas by A. G. Mojtabai
1986
Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement by James Farmer
1985
The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor
1985
Generations: An American Family by John Egerton
1984
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker
1984
Almost Family (Deep South Books) by Roy Hoffman
1983
South-watching : selected essays by Gerald W. Johnson
1983
Hearts and Minds : The Anatomy of Racism from Roosevelt to Reagan by Harry S. Ashmore
1982
The Winter People by John Ehle
1982
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
1981
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley by John Gaventa
1981
Revolt Against Chivalry by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
1980
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
1980
In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines
1979
Human rights odyssey by Marion A. Wright
1979
Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell
1978
The shad treatment: A novel by Garrett Epps
1978
Roots by Alex Haley
1977
Simple Justice by Richard Kluger
1977
Mississippi: Conflict and Change by James W. Loewen
1976
The Surface of Earth by Reynolds Price
1976
Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray
1974
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
1974
Ralph McGill, Reporter by Harold H. Martin
1973
Revolutionary Petunias by Alice Walker
1973
Migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers by Robert Coles
1972
Our land too by Anthony P. Dunbar
1971
The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking by Paul M. Gaston
1970
Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South by Dan T. Carter
1969
The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 by George Brown Tindall
1968

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