This article resurrects the perspectives of Black educators using the Georgia Teachers Education Association (GTEA) as a case study to explore the issues these educators sought to have engaged by the nation and other public educational advocates during the desegregation period from 1968 to 1970. It utilizes an historical ethnographic lens applied to the files in the private collection of the organization's last executive director, Dr. Horace Edward Tate, to seek to understand the events of desegregation as they held meaning to Black educators.