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UNC Press books win multiple awards
We're delighted to share lots of good news today. The 2010 Lillian Smith Book Award has been awarded to two UNC Press books this year: Amy Louise Wood's Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America and Charles W. Eagles's The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Old Miss. The prize, presented by the Southern Regional Council, the University of Georgia Libraries, and the DeKalb County Public Library/Georgia Center for the Book, "honors those authors who, through their writing, carry on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity...
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