For instance, when Southern educators risked losing their jobs by contributing to the NAACP, they funneled funds instead through the GT&EA. But Tate and other black educators realized that stealth could be more effective and less dangerous. Refusing to apply for a job at the superintendent’s back door or to accept discarded textbooks from the white school, he was an ardent and vocal champion for justice. This detailed account traces Tate’s path from college student to high school principal to president of the black-affiliated Georgia Teacher and Educator Association (GT&EA).Īlong the way, Tate learned to be an effective leader in a system controlled by white people. Walker focuses on Horace Tate, a Georgia educator who fought for equality across the state and throughout the South. In The Lost Education of Horace Tate, Emory University professor Vanessa Siddle Walker shows how black educators played hidden yet significant roles in the civil rights movement. These five new books highlight important connections between education and history, business, entrepreneurship, safety and democracy.
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