Lillian Smith

1897-1966

Early LifeBiography

• Born in Jasper, Florida• Grew up in Clayton, Georgia• Attended Piedmont College and Peabody

Institute

“In this South I lived as a child, and its is of that my story is made.”

Professional LifeBiography

• Camp Counselor• Teacher• Missionary & Music Teacher• Camp Director/Owner• Writer• Journal Publisher

Personal LifeBiography

• Paula Snelling

Countering the Metanarrative…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Billie Holliday’s Song, Strange Fruit:

The Conflicted SouthDisturbing, Provoking, Releasing…

Smith relates that though work owed to one’s earth...the destructiveness of hate and...the value of the individual” (1994, p. 95) may have been stressed within the family, a “tradition of racial hatred and a church that did not practice what it preached created a society in which ideals were separated from action and any knowledge that might shake old beliefs was feared” (1994, p. 151).

Ideals Separated from Action

Examining my Place…

Smith inspires me to examine my-

White

Southern

Female

-place and recognize that each descriptor carries threads that are woven into my consciousness. I can’t ignore them or pretend they’re not there. Instead, I must continually interrogate the ways they inform my thinking.

My Obligation:Counternarrative…

To create a compelling counter narrative…

Emergent Performance:

Deep Learning as an Improvisational Art

ReferencesClayton, Bruce (2013). Lillian Smith (1897-1966). New Georgia Encyclopedia. 23 August 2013. Web. 21 June 2015.

Garrison, J. W. (1997). Dewey and eros: Wisdom and desire in the art of teaching. New York: Teachers College Press.

Greene, M. (1973). Teacher as stranger: Educational philosophy for the modern age. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub.

Kincheloe, J. L (1991). Willie Morris and the southern curriculum. In J. L. Kincheloe & W. F. Pinar (Eds.) Curriculum as social psychoanalysis: The significance of place. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Pugh, M.C. (2015). Class Discussion, June 2015.

Smith, L. E., & Gladney, M. R. (1994). Killers of the dream. New York, NY: Norton.(First written in 1949 with additional chapters added in 1961 and an introduction by Margaret Rose

Gladney in 1994.)

Smith, L.E. (1956). Smith to King, In King Papers 3(168–170.)

Smith, L. E. (1944). Strange Fruit. Cornwall, NY: The Cornwall Press.

Stanford University (2015). Lillian Eugenia Smith. The King encyclopedia. http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_smith_lillian_eugenia_1897_1966/