2006 Winners

Title	Author	Publisher
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom	Heather Andrea Williams	University of North Carolina Press
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory	W. Fitzhugh Brundage	Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

2005 Winners

Title	Author	Publisher
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South	Stepanie M. H. Camp	University of North Carolina Press
Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America	Frye Gaillard	University of Alabama Press
The Untelling: A Novel	Tayari Jones	Time Warner Book Group

2004 Winners

Title	Author	Publisher
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement; A Radical Democratic Vision	Barbara Ransby	University of North Carolina Press
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy	Elizabeth R. Varon	Oxford University Press
Buffalo Dance, The Journey of York	Frank X. Walker	The University Press of Kentucky

Lillian Smith Book Award
Winners 1968-2002

2002	Anthony Grooms , Bombingham , Free Press Mark Newman , Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995 , University of Alabama Press; and Keith Wailoo , Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health, University of North Carolina Press William H. Chafe , Raymond Gavins , and Robert Korstad editors, with Paul Ortiz , Robert Parrish , Jennifer Ritterhouse , Keisha Roberts , Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South, The New Press
2001	Hal Crowther, Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South, Louisiana State University Press Pam Durban, So Far Back, Picador USA Robert P. “Bob” Moses, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., Radical Equations , Beacon Press Natasha Trethewey, Domestic Work, Graywolf Press
2000	Lawrence N. Powell, Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, The Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana, University of North Carolina Press Andrew M. Manis, A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth , University of Alabama Press Michael Keith Honey , Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism and the Freedom Struggle, University of California Press
1999	J. Morgan Kousser , Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction , University of North Carolina Press Leroy Davis , A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African-American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century , University of Georgia Press
1998	John Lewis , Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement , with Michael D'Orso, Simon & Schuster Elizabeth Cox , Night Talk , Graywolf Press, 1997 (Paperback Edition, St. Martin's Press, 1998)
1997	John M. Barry , The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, Simon & Schuster Charles Frazier , Cold Mountain , Atlantic Monthly Press
1996	Michael D'Orso , Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood , Grosset/Putnam Constance Curry , Silver Rights , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Anthony Grooms , Trouble No More , La Questa
1995	Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, University of California Press Adam Fairclough, Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisana, 1915-1972, University of Georgia Press Mary Lee Settle, Choices, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
1994	John Gregory Brown , Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery , Houghton Mifflin Company Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , Colored People , Alfred A. Knopf John Dittmer , Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi , University of Illinois Press
1993	Charles W. Eagles , Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama , University of North Carolina Press William Baldwin , The Hard To Catch Mercy , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Margaret Rose Gladney , How Am I To Be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith , University of North Carolina Press
1992	Marian Wright Edelman, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours , Beacon Press Melissa Fay Greene , Praying for Sheetrock , Addison-Wesley Denise Giardina , The Unquiet Earth , W.W. Norton & Company
1991	J.L. Chestnut, Jr., and Julia Cass, Black in Selma : The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr., Politics and Power in a Small American Town , Farrar, Straus & Giroux Mary Ward Brown , Tongues of Flame, E.P. Dutton
1990	Wayne Flynt , Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites , University of Alabama Press Dori Sanders , Clover: A Novel , Algonquin Books
1989	Melany Nielson , Even Mississippi, University of Alabama Press Madison Smartt Bell , Soldier's Joy , Ticknor & Fields Gloria Naylor , Mama Day , Ticknor & Fields
1988	Melton A. McLaurin , Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South , University of Georgia Press C. Eric Lincoln , The Avenue: Clayton City , Morrow
1987	Thomas L. Johnson, and Phillip C. Dunn (ed.) , A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936 , Algonquin Books Pauli Murray , Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage , Harper & Row Mary Hood , And Venus is Blue: Stories , Ticknor & Fields
1986	A.J. Mojtabai , Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo , Texas , Houghton Mifflin
1985	James Farmer , Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement , Arbor House Peter Taylor , The Old Forest and Other Stories , Dial Press
1984	John Egerton , Generations: An American Family , University of Kentucky Press Alice Walker , In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose , Harcourt Brace Eudora Welty , Special Lifetime Award
1983	Fred Hobson , South-Watching : Selected Essays by Gerald W. Johnson, University of North Carolina Press Roy Hoffman , Almost Family , Dial Press
1982	Harry S. Ashmore , Hearts and Minds: The Anatomy of Racism from Roosevelt to Reagan , McGraw-Hill John Ehle , The Winter People , Harper & Row
1981	John Gaventa , Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley , University of Illinois Press Pat Conroy , The Lords of Discipline , Houghton Mifflin
1980	Jacquelyn Dowd Hall , Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching , Columbia University Press Cormac McCarthy , Suttree , Random House
1979	Marion Wright and Arnold Shankman , Human Rights Odyssey , Moore Publishing Ernest J. Gaines , In My Father's House, Alfred A. Knopf
1978	Will D. Campbell, Brother to a Dragonfly , The Seabury Press Garrett Epps , The Shad Treatment: A Novel , Putnam
1977	Alex Haley, Roots , Doubleday Richard Kluger , Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America 's Struggle for Equality, Alfred A. Knopf
1976	James Loewen and Charles Sallis , Mississippi : Conflict and Change, Pantheon Books Reynolds Price , The Surface of Earth, Atheneum
1974	C. Vann Woodward , The Strange Career of Jim Crow , Oxford University Press Albert Murray , Train Whistle Guitar, McGraw-Hill
1973	Harold Martin , Ralph McGill, Reporter, Little Brown and Company Alice Walker , Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1972	Robert Coles , Children of Crisis, Vol. II: Migrants Sharecroppers, and Mountaineers , and V ol. III: The South Goes North, Little Brown and Company
1971	Anthony Dunbar , Our Land, Too, Pantheon Books
1970	Paul M. Gaston , The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking , Alfred A. Knopf
1969	Dan T. Carter , Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, Louisiana State University Press
1968	George B. Tindall , The Emergence of the New South : 1913-1945, Louisiana State University Press