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1) The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
"An important contribution to our understanding of how ordinary people found the strength to fight for equality for schoolchildren and their teachers."
—Wall Street Journal
In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis's March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled southern school...
"An important contribution to our understanding of how ordinary people found the strength to fight for equality for schoolchildren and their teachers."
—Wall Street Journal
In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis's March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled southern school...
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English
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Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addressed by community members as "Professor." He kept copious notes and records throughout his career, documenting efforts to improve the education of blacks. Through conversations with Byas and access to his extensive archives on his principalship, Vanessa Siddle Walker finds that black principals were well positioned...
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African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. Vanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural North Carolina, the Caswell County Training School, which operated from 1934 to 1969. She focuses especially on the importance of dedicated teachers and the...