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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
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Overview
“An important contribution to our understanding of how ordinary people found the strength to fight for equality for schoolchildren and their teachers.”
Wall Street Journal
In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis's March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled southern school segregation and inequality
For two years an aging Dr. Horace Tatea former teacher, principal, and state senatortold Emory University professor Vanessa Siddle Walker about his clandestine travels on unpaved roads under the cover of night, meeting with other educators and with Dr. King, Georgia politicians, and even U.S. presidents. Sometimes he and Walker spoke by phone, sometimes in his office, sometimes in his home; always Tate shared fascinating stories of the times leading up to and following Brown v. Board of Education. Dramatically, on his deathbed, he asked Walker to return to his office in Atlanta, in a building that was once the headquarters of another kind of southern strategy, one driven by integrity and equality.
Just days after Dr. Tate's passing in 2002, Walker honored his wish. Up a dusty, rickety staircase, locked in a concealed attic, she found the collection: a massive archive documenting the underground actors and covert strategies behind the most significant era of the fight for educational justice. Thus began Walker's sixteen-year project to uncover the network of educators behind countless battlesin courtrooms, schools, and communitiesfor the education of black children. Until now, the courageous story of how black Americans in the South won so much and subsequently fell so far has been incomplete. The Lost Education of Horace Tate is a monumental work that offers fresh insight into the southern struggle for human rights, revealing little-known accounts of leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson, as well as hidden provocateurs like Horace Tate.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781620971055 |
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Publisher: | New Press, The |
Publication date: | 07/31/2018 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 448 |
Sales rank: | 621,361 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.50(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Finding the Hidden Provocateurs 1
Prologue: Before the End 7
Part I The Education of a Young Principal
1 In the Shadow of His Smile 13
2 Now You See Me, Now You Don't 29
3 My Dear Mr. Marshall 40
4 The Balm in Gilead 55
5 A Simple Scheme to Do a "Simple Little" 71
6 To Help Our People 83
7 Fighting White Folk 98
8 Out of the Public Eye 115
9 Seasons of Opportunity 124
10 Paying the Cost 136
Part II The Education of Negro Leaders
11 Just Trying to Be a Man 145
12 Moving on Up 159
13 In This Present Crisis 172
14 Shifting Sands 186
15 The Ties That Bind 201
16 Paying the Cost-Again 214
Part III The Education of a People
17 Walking the Ancient Paths 221
18 Policing the South 233
19 Justice Restructured in Dixie 245
20 As Freedom Turns 257
21 Not a Two-Way Street 270
22 We Hold These Truths 285
23 Fighting Back 301
24 A Charge to Keep I Have 317
25 Justice Betrayed 334
26 A Second-Class Integration It Is 352
27 Nobody but a Fool 363
Epilogue: The Last Word 368
Author's Note: A Look in the Rearview Mirror 373
Acknowledgments 379
Notes 383
Index 455