Her Life and Message Lillian Smith Book Award History Lillian Smith Book Award Winners 1968-2011 2013 Nominations Southern Regional Council DeKalb County Public Library/Georgia Center for the Book

Lillian Smith Book Award 2007 - 2011 Winners Presented by Southern Regional Council, University of Georgia Libraries and DeKalb County Public Library/Georgia Center for the Book 2012 Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, Oxford University Press Inscoe, John C., Writing the South Through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography, The University of Georgia Press 2011 Lerner, Steve, Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States, The MIT Press McGuire, Danielle L., 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, Alfred A. Knopf 2010 Wood, Amy Louise, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940, University of North Carolina Press Eagles, Charles W., The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss, University of North Carolina Press 2009 Gross, Areila J., What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, Harvard University Press Bob Zellner with Constance Curry, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, NewSouth Books, Inc. 2008 Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution, Princeton University Press Wesley C. Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America, University of North Carolina Press 2007 Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, Houghton Mifflin Co. Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics In the Sunbelt South, Princeton University Press Lillian Smith Book Award 2004-2006 Winners Presented by Southern Regional Council and University of Georgia Libraries 2006 Heather Andrea Williams, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, University of North Carolina Press W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2005 Stepanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, University of North Carolina Press Frye Gaillard, Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America, University of Alabama Press Tayari Jones, The Untelling: A Novel, Time Warner Book Group 2004 Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, University of North Carolina Press Elizabeth R. Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, Oxford University Press Frank X. Walker, Buffalo Dance, The Journey of York, The University Press of Kentucky Lillian Smith Book Award Winners 1968-2002 Presented by Southern Regional Council 2002 Anthony Grooms, Bombingham , Free Press Mark Newman, Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995 , University of Alabama Press 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