Lillian Smith Breaking the Silence

Lillian Smith Breaking the Silence is a 50minute documentary about the life and work of Georgia writer and activist Lillian Smith 1887 1966 This documentary explores her legacy and the life journey that led to her awakening from her childhood experiences in a small southern town to her years of living abroad in China to directing a girls summer camp in North Carolina By the time she published a bestselling novel in 1944 her moral compass was finely tuned to the changes needed in the southern US and she spent the next two decades confronting the ugly institution of segregation saying that it harmed whites as much as blacks In the decade before her death she wrote about the need for freedom and respect for everyone everywhere