For two years an aging Dr. Horace Tate — a former teacher, principal, and state senator — told 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.
After Tate’s death, Walker set to work to uncover the network of educators behind countless battles — in courtrooms, schools, and communities — for the education of Black children. Until this book, the story of how African Americans in the South won so much and subsequently fell so far has been incomplete. The Lost Education of Horace Tate offers 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. [Description adapted from the publisher.]
ISBN: 978-1-62097-602-9 | The New Press
Melinda D. Anderson interviewed Walker for The Atlantic in 2018.
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