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Graduate Students Help Catalog Materials at the Lillian E. Smith Center

During the past weekend, History M.A. students Emma Pepperman and Margaret Schultz joined Dr. Julia Brock at the Lillian E. Smith Center in Clayton, Georgia, to create a catalog of the material culture that is housed within the Center. The site was the former Laurel Falls Girls Camp, begun by the family of writer and activist Lillian Smith in 1920 and directed by Smith herself until 1949, when the camp closed. Smith penned her novel Strange Fruit (1944) and memoir Killers of […]

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