![]() ![]() ![]() Smith, in the mid-summer Laurel Leaf, the newsletter that she sent to parents, detailed what the girls talked about when they heard the news. The camp was in session, and the girls heard about the murders. ![]() In 1946, George Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcolm, and Dorothy Malcolm were lynched in Monroe, Georgia. This knowledge arose, in part, from Smith’s work with the girls at Laurel Falls Camp. ![]() She writes, “Even its children knew that the South was in trouble.” From the outset, she notes that children know when things are awry and need to be changed. She even begins Killers of The Dream (1949), a text that explores the effects of racism on the white psyche by pointing this out. Lillian Smith points this out on numerous occasions in her work, noting, as Powell does, that children have extremely sensitive bullshit detectors. What roots that seed will sprout and what plant arises depends on the nourishment and water it receives. He watered the seed, but he did not necessarily plant it. Powell raised his kids to “on images of protest” from his own work in graphic novels depicting the Civil Rights Movement such as March and The Silence of Our Friends. ![]()
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