"She stood at the gate, waiting; behind her the swamp, in front of her Colored Town, beyond it, all Maxwell. Tall and slim and white in the dusk, the girl stood there, hands on the picket gate."
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Lillian Smith (author)
Lillian Eugenia Smith (December 12, 1897 – September 28, 1966) was an American author and social activist.
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