Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. From as early as the 1930s, she argued that Jim Crow was evil (“Segregation is spiritual lynching,” she said) and that it leads to social and moral decay. Literary Works Smith gained national recognition—and regional denunciation—by writing Strange Fruit (1944), a bold novel of illicit interracial love.

The narrow, flat top of Lookout Mountain in Walker County is large enough for small communities and a few roads. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOnKaupqSesrR5wqKrop2jYrumtcahmaiqmKS8pb%2BOpaaoo5%2BqwW65zq6lrZmZo3yueZJrcGpn

Lutheranism, with more than 60 million members, is the largest of the Protestant denominations. It was founded in the early sixteenth century when a German monk, Martin Luther, protested the Roman Catholic Church’s practice of selling indulgences as part of the penance, or punishment, for those who sinned against church teachings. Lutheranism is thus central to the Protestant Reformation and, aided by the rulers of many German principalities rebelling against the centralized power of the Holy Roman Empire, it rapidly spread throughout Germany and Scandinavia.

The Oconee River begins in the Appalachian Mountains and joins with the Ocmulgee River to form the Altamaha River in Georgia's Upper Coastal Plain. The cities of Athens, Milledgeville, and Dublin are located along the Oconee. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource may need to be submitted to Explore Georgia.

The Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology is the primary academic unit for ecological research and teaching at the University of Georgia. Courtesy of University of Georgia Photographic Services. Photograph by Paul Efland The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.