An Inconvenient Woman and the Reactionary South with Keri Leight Merritt

In this episode of VarnVlog, host C. Derick Varn sits down with historian, writer, and independent scholar Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt (author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South) to discuss her new book, "An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, The Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America" (St. Martin's Press). Together, they explore the life and legacy of Lillian Smith—a radical Southern white woman, educator, and writer who publicly called f...