![]() ![]() While the NAACP served as the face of reform, the organization could not have succeeded without these behind-the-scenes players. Tate’s testimony, however, along with the massive amount of archival material he provided for her, revealed generations of black educators acting strategically and covertly to achieve change. ![]() Board of Education Supreme Court case” that incited grass-roots movements, civil disobedience, and legal protests. Before embarking on research for this book, Walker believed the “repeatedly told and almost universally accepted” story that “the NAACP protested injustice and crafted the successful Brown v. Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South, 2009, etc.) focuses on the career of teacher, school principal, and Georgia state senator Horace Tate (1922-2002) to offer a new perspective on segregated schooling and education reform in the South. A historian of black education discovers an underground network of advocates and reformers.ĭrawing on two years of interviews and more than 15 years of research, Walker (African-American Education Studies/Emory Univ. ![]()
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