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Lillian Smith Book Awards

Hank Kilbanoff as featured speaker
pin Center for Civil and Human Rights 100 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30313

Pulitzer-prize winner Hank Klibanoff is the featured speaker Sept. 25 at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Lillian Smith Book Awards. The program, open free to the public, begins at 6:30 p.m. at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. A reception will follow.



Klibanoff will speak on “Courage, Cowardice and, Now, Contrition,” which will draw on his book, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation; the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases class Klibanoff leads at Emory University; and the podcast, Buried Truths, which he hosts and WABE produces.



Klibanoff is currently a professor in the creative writing/non-fiction program at Emory University. He directs the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory (coldcases.emory.edu) and is the creator and narrator of Buried Truths, a narrative history podcast.

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