 Complete the following phrase:  William Gardner Smith February 6, 1927  November 5, 1974 was an American journalist, novelist, and editor. Smith is linked to the black social protest novel tradition of the 1940s and the 1950s, a movement that became synonymous with writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Willard Motley, and Ann Petry. Smiths third book, South Street 1954, is considered to be one of the first black militant protest novels. His last published novel, The Stone Face 1963, in its account of the 