Lillian Smith Book Award Winners

Since 1968, the Lillian Smith Book Award is awarded annually for books that deal with social justice, civil and human rights, the education and social ...more

Winners

	On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 98 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr. 4.42 avg rating — 449 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights by Brandon K. Winford (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating Lillian Smith Book Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism by Jelani M Favors 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 2,329 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools by Vanessa Siddle Walker 4.33 avg rating — 79 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools by Rachel Devlin 4.13 avg rating — 217 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean 4.29 avg rating — 4,325 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 3,998 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott 4.26 avg rating — 872 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s by Risa Goluboff 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aaron Henry of Mississippi: Inside Agitator by Minion K. C. Morrison it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Lillian Smith Book Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) by Cheryl Knott 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South by Andrew Maraniss (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 284 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking Back, Moving Forward: Southwest Georgia Freedom Struggle 1814-2014 by Lee W. Formwalt it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Lillian Smith Book Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Shall Not Be Moved by M.J. O'Brien 4.53 avg rating — 36 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma by Bernard LaFayette Jr. 4.36 avg rating — 39 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta After World War II (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Francoise Nicole Hamlin 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography by Randal Maurice Jelks (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography by John C. Inscoe 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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 by Danielle L. McGuire (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 3,331 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States by Steve Lerner 3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Price of Defiance by Charles W. Eagles 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood 3.94 avg rating — 89 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement by Bob Zellner 4.12 avg rating — 129 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America by Ariela J. Gross (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America by Wesley C. Hogan 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) (Politics and Society in Modern America, 63) by Joseph Crespino 3.87 avg rating — 62 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Politics and Society in Modern America, 40) by Matthew D. Lassiter 3.73 avg rating — 119 ratings Lillian Smith Book Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars