Mrs. Lillian Smith, thirty-three years old, wife of Walter Smith, who is employed in a Broadway dry goods store, yesterday afternoon killed herself, her six-year-old son Andrew, and her four-year ...

KILLERS OF THE DREAM (256 pp.)—Lillian Smith—Norton ($3). When Lillian Smith was a little girl in the deep South, a new Negro family moved to town. With the family came Janie, its adopted ...

Georgia author and activist Lillian Smith published ‘Killers of the Dream’ 75 years ago. But many students of the South grow up unaware of Lillian Smith. “I thought I knew about Southern ...

Smith’s legacy lives on in the Lillian Smith Book Awards, given by the University of Georgia Libraries. Established in 1968 to recognize the best writing on social justice, it has been bestowed ...