María del Carmen Millán

Mexican literature was the enduring passion of María del Carmen Millán (1914-1982). She taught it in her lectures, explored it in her writings, and promoted it in the collective works and collections she edited.

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Lillian Smith

Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.

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