Description: The Auburn Avenue Research Library, in partnership with the Baton Foundation, Inc.,, will host Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker who will discuss her publication, The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools. The Lost Education of Horace Tate is a monumental work that offers fresh 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. Just days after Dr. Tate’s passing in 2002, Dr. Walker found a massive archive documenting the underground actors and covert strategies behind the most significant era of the fight for educational justice. Thus began Walker’s sixteen-year project to uncover the network of educators behind countless battles—in courtrooms, schools, and communities—for the education of black children. Vanessa Siddle Walker, a professor at Emory University, has studied the segregated schooling of African American children for more than twenty years. She is the president of the American Educational Research Association, a former National Academy of Education Post-Doctoral Spencer fellow, and a recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in education

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