Southern Regional Council

05/17/2026

As part of the Southern Regional Councils observance of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which was announced on this date in 1954, Carol Mitchell Leon and the Clark Atlanta University Players presented a dramatization of the events leading up to the decision and its meaning.

This video presents excerpts from this presentation.

The Southern Regional Council's Dramatic Commemoration of the Landmark Court Decision

05/17/2026

As part of the Southern Regional Councils observance of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Carol Mitchell Leon and the Cla...

04/28/2026

Crystal Sanders Received a Lillian Smith Book Award in 2025 for her book "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs."

04/19/2026

Robert Cohen received a Lillian Smith Book Award in 2025 for his book "Confronting Jim Crow: Race. Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century."

04/07/2026

Lillian Smith Juror named poet laureate of Alabama

Gov. Ivey presented a certificate to Dr. Jacqueline Allen Trimble, Alabama's incoming Poet Laureate.For more Local News from WSFA: https://www.wsfa.com/For m...

04/07/2026

The Southern Regional Council (SRC), founded in 1919 to combat racial injustice, established the Lillian Smith Book Awards in 1966 to ...

04/07/2026

Jacqueline Allen Trimble – the newest juror for the Lillian Smith Book Awards – was recently commissioned by Gov. Kay Ivey as the new poet laureate for the state of Alabama.

The Southern Regional Council recently announced the newest juror for the 2026 Lillian Smith Book Awards. Jacqueline Allen Trimble – an a...

04/07/2026

The Southern Regional Council recently announced the newest juror for the 2026 Lillian Smith Book Awards. Jacqueline Allen Trimble – an a...

03/06/2026

Bernard LaFayette, Jr. whom we lost this week, received a Lillian Smith Book Award in 2014 for his book "In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma."

Bernard Lafayette is the author of "In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma."In the summer of 1962, LaFayette accepted a position with the Student Nonviole...

10/22/2025

At an awards ceremony at the DeKalb Public Library on September 30, 2025, this year's Lillian Smith Book Awards were presented to Robert Cohen for his book "Confronting Jim Crow: Race. Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century" and to Crystal Sanders for her book "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs."