Educator : The Life of Thelma Smiley Morris

Former Alabama school superintendent Thomas Bobo’s biography of teacher Thelma Smiley Morris, for whom the Morris Elementary School is named. “I recall Thelma Smiley Morris,” writes Coretta Scott King in her foreword, “as one of Montgomery’s finest citizens and a woman of great faith, dignity, and grace, who was devoted to her family, church, and community.”