Lillian Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel "Strange Fruit" (1944). 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 almost guaranteed social ostracism. Wikipedia
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