Sidney Hillman awards - Hotel Commodore.

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Sidney Hillman 12th annual award luncheon.

Jacob Potoffsky presents and award to Lillian Smith for her Redbook magazine article, The Ordeal of Southern Women. Smith was not present due to cancer. Her acceptance address is read by actress Virginia Rawls, Rebook editor Robert Stein magazine accepts the award.

Lillian Smith (1897–1966) was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions almost guaranteed social ostracism.

Discs missing. 2 discs; 3s. 12in. 5-3-63
Contents: Jacob Potoffsky presents awards to Jane Jacobs, Patrick Owens, Charles Dorkins, Robert Young, and L. Wasserman for the NBC Television program "Journey to a War"

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 91077
Municipal archives id: LT9545