Merze TateA powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveller Shortlisted for the Stone Book Award, sponsored by the Museum of African American History Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (19051996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a "sex and race discriminating world." Against all odds, the brilliant and