![]() ![]() ![]() Tate's passing in 2002, Walker honored his wish. Dramatically, on his deathbed, he asked Walker to return to his office in Atlanta, in a building that was once the headquarters of another kind of Southern strategy, one driven by integrity and equality. 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. ![]() 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. 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 segregation and inequality For two years an aging Dr. ![]()
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