Randal Maurice Jelks Received a Lillian Smith Book Award in 2013 for his book "Benjamin Elijah Mays: Schoolmaster of the Movement." The 2025 Lillian Smith Book Awards will be presented at the DeKalb Public Library in the Fall of 2025. youtube.com/watch?v=isUgHF…

Please join us as we present this year's awards at the DeKalb Public Library on September 30, 2025.

Crystal Sanders will receive a Lillian Smith Book Award on September 30, 2025 for her book"A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs."

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson received a Lillian Smith Book Award in 2022 for her book "My Monticello." The 2025 awards will be presented at the DeKalb Public Library on September 30, 2025. youtu.be/so_EXMjb7W0?si… via YouTube

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The 2020 Lillian Smith Book Awards were presented to Jelani Favors and Brandon K. Winford. The 2025 Lillian Smith Book Awards will be presented at the DeKalb Public Library on September 30, 2025. We hope you will join us for this year's presentation.

Please join us as we present the 2025 awards at the Decatur Library on September 30, 2025.

Please join us as we present the 2025 awards at the Decatur Library on September 30, 2025:Jelani Favors Receives Lillian Smith Book Award for 2020 youtu.be/vCRJJ9JwRV4?si… via YouTube

Please join us as we present the 2025 awards at the Decatur Library on September 30, 2025

“Economic data must be free from partisan influence,” she said. Ms. McEntarfer voiced her fears during a speech at Bard College in New York, her alma mater . . . nytimes.com/2025/09/16/bus…

Please join us for this year's awards ceremony at the Decatur Library on September 30, 2025.

Robert Cohen will receive a 2025 Lillian Smith Book Award for his book "Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century" at an awards ceremony at the Decatur Library on September 30, 2025.

Crystal Sanders will receive a 2025 Lillian Smith Book Award for her book "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" at an awards ceremony at the DeKalb Public Library in Decatur, Georgia on September 30, 2025. The

We hope you will join us as we present the 2025 Lillian Smith Book Awards.

Please join us on September 30, 2025 at the DeKalb Public Library in Decatur, Georgia as we present the 2025 Lillian Smith Book Awards to authors whose books, through high literary merit and moral vision, honestly portray the South, its people, its problems and its promise.

At an awards ceremony at the DeKalb Public Library on September 30, 2025, this year's Lillian Smith Book Awards were presented to Robert Cohen for his book "Confronting Jim Crow: Race. Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century" and to Crystal Sanders, for her