Killers of the Dream

by SMITH (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $11.43

  A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream (1949), her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation the intricate system of taboos that undergirded Southern society.