Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler

Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world.” Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harv...