Lillian Smith

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Lillian Smith, a prominent writer and opponent of segegation during the Jim Crow era, is pictured in the 1940s with workmen at Laurel Falls Girls Camp in Rabun County. Smith served as director of the camp from around 1925 until 1949.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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