Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence — Documentary Screening

Join the Cashiers Historical Society and Albert-Carlton Cashiers Community Library for a film screening and engaging discussion on southern writer/activist Lillian Smith, who received national attention in the 1940s-50s as the first prominent southern author to speak out against segregation.

Breaking the Silence explores how this child of the South became a formidable opponent of the southern way of life protected by segregationist politicians, church leaders and newspaper editors. The documentary tells the story of Smith in her own voice and seldom-seen interviews, and also through the voices of friends and family and those like Otis Moss Jr. and Lonnie King, both pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as leading academics such as George Yancy of Emory University, Diane Roberts of Florida State University, and Lillian Smith scholar Rose Gladney.

Location: Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library

Details: Free and open to the public

This event is a collaboration between the Cashiers Historical Society and the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library. It is part of the Cashiers Historical Society’s Mountain Heritage Series and Women's History Month programming.