“Faith and doubt both are needed
not as antagonists,
but working side by side
to take us around the unknown curve.”
~ Lillian Smith
*Lillian Eugenia Smith
Born December 12, 1897
Bied September 28, 1966
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.
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