She applied to law schools, convinced by college friends that she could "maximize" her impact with another degree. Though daunted in the classroom, Kuo carried on, wondering if she'd ever manage to make a difference. The truth was something altogether different: "What had the Civil Rights Movement been for-the violence, the martyrs, the passionate actions-if its birthplace was still poor, still segregated, still in need of dramatic social change?" Armed with a degree from Harvard and a passion for the Civil Rights movement, Kuo felt sure she would find a city and its people eager for aid. Is it possible to change lives with words? Michelle Kuo, author of Reading with Patrick (reviewed below), believed so when, at the age of 22, she set out to teach in the Mississippi Delta.
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