For two years, an aging Tate told Siddle Walker fascinating stories about a lifetime advocating for racial justice in schools. 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 battles-in courtrooms, schools, and communities-for the quality education of black children. Horace Tate, a former Georgia school teacher, principal, and state senator. The harrowing account of the black Southern educators who "bravely pressed on for justice in schools" ( The New York Review of Books ) even as the bright lodestar of desegregation faded 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 meetings-with other educators, Dr.
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