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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 fadedThis well-told and inspiring story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is the monumental product of Lillian Smith Book Awardwinning 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
