Maxine Smith's Unwilling Pupils: Lessons Learned in Memphis's Civil Rights Classroom

Maxine Smith's Unwilling Pupils is the authorized biography of civil rights Maxine Atkins Smith (1929-2013). This book present a well-balanced historical background of the civil rights era and presents one woman's struggle as a prism for understanding the human dimensions of the fight for equality. The biography portrays Smith's lifelong focus on education as she tried to enlighten both blacks and whites about equality and the inalienable rights of all races. Along the way she became the fa...