The Southern Regional Council (SRC) recently announced that forty seven books have been nominated for the Lillian Smith Book Awards for 2019 to be presented in Decatur, Georgia on September 1, 2019.
SRC was founded in 1919 to combat racial injustice in the South. SRC initiated the Lillian Smith Book Awards shortly after Smith's death in 1966 to recognize authors whose writing extends the legacy of the outspoken writer, educator and social critic who challenged her fellow Southerners and all Americans on issues of social and racial justice. Since 2004 the awards have been presented by SRC in a partnership with the University of Georgia Libraries, whose Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library houses a historic collection of Lillian Smith's letters and manuscripts. The Georgia Center for the Book became a partner in 2007, when the awards ceremony first became part of the Decatur Book Festival. Piedmont College, which operates the Lillian Smith Center, became a partner in 2015.
The award recipients for 2015 were Locking Up Our Own by James Foreman, Jr. and Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy McLean.
The 2019 nominated books are:
After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform, by Andrea Gabor, The New Press
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, by Terrance Hayes, Penguin Random House
An American Marriage: A Novel, by Tayari Jones, Algonquin Books
Anaphora, by Kevin Goodan, Alice James Books
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks, St. Martin's Prcss
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found, by Gilbert King, Riverhead Books
Catfish Dream: Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta, by Julian Rankin, University of Georgia Press
City of a Million Dreams; A History of New Orleans at 300, by Jason Berry, University of North Carolina Press
Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World, by Jennifer Palmieri, Grand Central Publishing
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy, by Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, The New Press
Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, by Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand, LSU Press
DaVida, by Monica A. Hand, Alice James Books
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Super Power, by Brittney Cooper, St. Martin's Press
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practice Guide to Liberation on the Land, by Leah Penniman, Chelsea Green Publishing
Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea, by Anna Badkhen, Riverhead Books
Foreign Policy on the Left, by Michael Walzer, Yale University Press
Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline, by Andrew Kahrl, Yale University Press
Ghost, Like a Place, by Ian Haley Pollock, Alice James Books
Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools, by Rebecca Traister, Simon & Shuster
Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility and Innocence Lost, by Frye Gaillard, New South Books
Howard Zinn's Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism, by Robert Cohen, University of Georgia Press
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southern Confronts His History, by Mitch Landrieu, Penguin Random House/Viking Press
Isako Isako, by Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Alice James Books
Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, by Francisco Cantu, Riverhead Books
Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought, by David A. Varel, The University of Georgia Press
Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools, by Vanessa Siddle Walker, The New Press
Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race and Ambition in the New South, by Pam Kelley, the New Press
Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America, by Sharmila Sen, Penguin Random House
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Promise: A Novel, by Delray McKesson, Penquin Random House/Viking Press
Promise: A Novel, by Monrose Gwin, HarperCollins Publishers
Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, by Justin Driver, Pantheon Books
Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, by Andrew Lawler, Doubleday/Penquin Random House
Sons of Achilles, by Nabila Lovelace, YesYes Books
Southernmost: A Novel, by Silas House, Algonquin Books
Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South, by James Hudnut-Buemler, University of North Carolina Press
Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, by Anthony Ray Hinton, St. Martin's Press
Swimming Between Worlds, by Elaine Neil Orr, Berkley/Penguin Random House
Take You Wherever You Go, By Kenny Leon, Grand Central Publishing
There Will be No Miracles Here: A Memoir, by Case Gerald, Riverhead Books
Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice, by Rebecca Todd Peters, Beacon Press
Vain Conversation: A Novel, by Anthony Grooms, University of South Carolina Press
Visible Empire, Hannah Pittard, Houghton Miflin Harcourt
We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team that Dismantled Jim Crow, by Margaret Edds, University of Virginia Press
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America, by Michael Eric Dyson, St. Martins Press
White Dancing Elephants, Chaya Bhuvaeswar, Dzanc Books
Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, by Elaine Weiss, Penguin Random House/Viking Press
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