The Lillian Smith Book Awards honor those authors who, through their writing, carry on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding.
From Here to Equality: reparations for Black Americans in the twenty-first century by 
On Account of Race : the Supreme Court, white supremacy, and the ravaging of African American voting rights by 
John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights by 
Shelter in a Time of Storm: how black colleges fostered student activism by 
Democracy in Chains: the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America by 
Locking up Our Own: crime and punishment in black America by 
The Firebrand and the First Lady: portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice by 
Vagrant nation : police power, constitutional change, and the making of the 1960s by 
Aaron Henry of Mississippi: inside agitator by 
Not Free, Not for All: public libraries in the age of Jim Crow by 
Looking Back, Moving Forward: a review of group and team-based research by 
In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma by 
