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The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 by George Brown Tindall	1968
Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South by Dan T. Carter	1969
The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking by Paul M. Gaston	1970
Our land too by Anthony P. Dunbar	1971
Migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers by Robert Coles	1972
Ralph McGill, Reporter by Harold H. Martin	1973
Revolutionary Petunias by Alice Walker	1973
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward	1974
Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray	1974
Mississippi: Conflict and Change by James W. Loewen	1976
The Surface of Earth by Reynolds Price	1976
Roots by Alex Haley	1977
Simple Justice by Richard Kluger	1977
Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell	1978
The shad treatment: A novel by Garrett Epps	1978
Human rights odyssey by Marion A. Wright	1979
In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines	1979
Revolt Against Chivalry by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall	1980
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy	1980
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy	1981
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley by John Gaventa	1981
Hearts and Minds : The Anatomy of Racism from Roosevelt to Reagan by Harry S. Ashmore	1982
The Winter People by John Ehle	1982
Almost Family (Deep South Books) by Roy Hoffman	1983
South-watching : selected essays by Gerald W. Johnson	1983
Generations: An American Family by John Egerton	1984
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker	1984
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
Blessed Assurance: At Home With the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas by A. G. Mojtabai	1986
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
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
Even Mississippi by Melany Neilson	1989
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor	1989
Soldier's Joy by Madison Smartt Bell	1989
Clover by Dori Sanders	1990
Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites by Wayne Flynt	1990
Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. by J. L. Chestnut, Jr.	1991
Tongues of flame by Mary Ward Brown	1991
The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman	1992
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene	1992
Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina	1992
The Hard to Catch Mercy by William P. Baldwin	1993
How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith by Lillian Smith	1993
Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama by Charles W. Eagles	1993
Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Jr Gates	1994
Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery by John Gregory Brown	1994
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer	1994
Choices by Mary Lee Settle	1995
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne	1995
Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 by Adam Fairclough	1995
Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood by Michael D'Orso	1996
Silver Rights by Constance Curry	1996
Trouble No More by Anthony Grooms	1996
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier	1997
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry	1997
Night Talk by Elizabeth Cox	1998
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis	1998
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
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
Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South by Hal Crowther	2001
Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey	2001
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project by Robert P. Moses	2001
So Far Back: A Novel by Pam Durban	2001
Bombingham by Anthony Grooms	2002
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health by Keith Wailoo	2002
Getting Right With God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995 by Mark Newman	2002
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South by William Henry Chafe	2002
Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (Kentucky Voices) by Frank X. Walker	2004
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
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
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams	2006
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory by W. Fitzhugh Brundage	2006
Native Guard: Poems by Natasha Trethewey	2007
The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South by Matthew D. Lassiter	2007
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
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
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (New Directions in Southern Studies) by Amy Louise Wood	2010
The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss by Charles W. Eagles	2010
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
Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States by Steve Lerner	2011
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
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography by Randal Maurice Jelks	2013
Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II by Fran©ʹoise N. Hamlin	2013
In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma by Bernard LaFayette Jr.	2014
We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired by M. J. O'Brien	2014
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
Aaron Henry of Mississippi: Inside Agitator by Minion K. C. Morrison	2016
Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow by Cheryl Knott	2016
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
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean	2018
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.	2018
Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor by Virginia Eubanks	2019
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools by Rachel Devlin	2019
The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools by Vanessa Siddle Walker	2019
John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights by Brandon K. Winford	2020
Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism by Jelani M. Favors	2020

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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 human understanding.

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