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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
This "well-told and inspiring" story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is the monumental product of Lillian Smith Book Award–winning author Vanessa Siddle Walker's two-decade investigation into the clandestine travels and meetingswith other educators, Dr. King, Georgia politicians, and even U.S. presidentsof one Dr. Horace Tate, a former Georgia school teacher, principal, and state senator. In a sweeping work "that reads like a companion piece to 'Hidden Figures,'" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), post-Brown generations will encounter invaluable lessons for today from the educators behind countless historical battlesin courtrooms, schools, and communitiesfor the quality education of black children.
For two years, an aging Tate told Siddle Walker fascinating stories about a lifetime advocating for racial justice in schools. On his deathbed, he asked her return to his office in Atlanta, where upon his passing she discovered an attic filled with a massive archive documenting the underground actors and covert strategies behind the most significant era of the fight for educational justice. Until now, the courageous tale 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 powerful reminder of the link between educators and the struggle for equality and justice in American history" (The Wall Street Journal).
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781620976029 |
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Publisher: | New Press, The |
Publication date: | 04/07/2020 |
Pages: | 480 |
Sales rank: | 313,171 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(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