LifeQs
Harper Lee
Elizabeth Sams
I grew up in the grudgingly desegregating south of the late 50s and 60s. It's difficult to overstate the importance this book had on me and a lot of others of my generation. It made the polite "things have always been this way" racism of the prevailing culture suddenly visible and unsustainable. And Atticus Finch set an indelible standard for how not to go along.