The Lost Education of Horace Tate by Vanessa Siddle Walker

We’re reading Mia Birdsong’s How We Show Up. Register for our upcoming bookclub in early December. Use these links or start at our storefront to support local bookstores, and send a portion of the proceeds back to us. Green v County Board of New Kent County.The United Daughters of the Confederacy.Video of the full keynote is available here.The National Coalition for School Diversity.Vanessa Siddle-Walker – Their Highest Potential, The Lost Education of Horace Tate.Elizabeth McRea – Mother’s of Massive Resistance.It’s an important conversation, and we are deeply grateful to everyone involved for allowing us to share it. Author Courtney Martin kicks off the conversation by conjuring the memory of Courtney Mykytyn, and Andrew closes things out with a tribute to Courtney and the importance of this work, in this moment.

Not only did real integration never happen, but the costs of its failure were enormous and last to today.Ĭourtney was on the NCSD steering committee, and this panel was conceived in her honor. Elizabeth McRae recounts the steady work of White supremacist educational politics, most often led by White women, to ensure that Black educational excellence was eroded and replaced by White supremacist policies and pedagogy. Vanessa Siddle-Walker tells the story of the excellent, robust, and holistic Black schools and educators that our country consciously eliminated in its desegregation efforts. Through a conversation facilitated by journalist Dani McClain, Dr. A chance to know better, so that we might do better. A conversation conceived in honor of Integrated Schools founder and former podcast co-host, Courtney, it offers a chance to better understand the history of desegregation so that we might better conceive of how to move forward. While their annual conference was postponed due to COVID, the keynote panel was held virtually. The National Coalition for School Diversity serves as the hub of the school integration movement.

White Supremacy and Black Educational Excellence: Hidden Stories of the Integration Movement

The Lost Education of Horace Tate by Vanessa Siddle Walker