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Interview with Dr. Lewis Walker, Part 2
No full textPart 2 of two part interview with Dr. Lewis Walker recorded on February 11, 2015. Dr. Walker is interviewed by Kalamazoo College student Katherine H Rapin as a part of SHARE\u27s (formerly known as the Southwest Michigan Black Heritage Society) Baldwin Archive Engaging the Wisdom Project with Kalamazoo College. During the interview Dr. Walker discusses the following topics: Being one of the first African-American professors at WMU; Memories of school desegregation in Kalamazoo; Description of racial dynamics in Kalamazoo during school desegregation; Developing the Kalamazoo Resource Development Council in 1967; Explanation of the Self- Enhancement Program at WMU; Mediating a fellow teacher’s racial insensitivity toward students of color; Developing a police community relations program in Kalamazoo in the late 60s; Today’s national conversation around police relations with black communities; Explanation of how the Walker Institute at WMU is working to address issues of over-criminalization of our society; Comparison of activist strategies earlier in Walker’s life and now; Description of projects Walker remains involved in post-retirement.
Additional files include full transcription and abstract (includes content timestamps).https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/engaging-the-wisdom/1018/thumbnail.jp
Lewis Walker letter to Thomas Rotch, Mount Pleasant 10 mo 9th, 1821
No full textLewis Walker asks that Thomas Rotch send him cloth in exchange for paper materials. 8.2" x 9.75" (20.7 by 24.8 cm
Interview with Dr. Lewis Walker, Part 1
No full textPart 1 of two part interview with Dr. Lewis Walker recorded on February 5, 2015. Dr. Walker is interviewed by Kalamazoo College student Katherine H. Rapin as a part of SHARE\u27s (formerly known as the Southwest Michigan Black Heritage Society) Baldwin Archive Engaging the Wisdom Project with Kalamazoo College. During the interview Dr. Walker discusses the following topics: Growing up in Jim Crow South, Selma and Birmingham, Alabama; Attending college at Wilberforce University and Ohio State University; Being fired from summer job because of prejudice; Attending “a march against fear” organized by Martin Luther King Jr. in Jackson, Mississippi; History of family and having a white plantation owner as a great grandfather; Description of transition from Jim Crow South to Ohio for school at age 18; Discussion of influential professors at Wilberforce University; Discussion of wanting to become a professor; Memories of moving to Kalamazoo, MI to teach at Western Michigan University; Struggles of finding housing in Kalamazoo, MI as a black in the 60s.
Additional files include full transcription and abstract (includes content timestamps).https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/engaging-the-wisdom/1017/thumbnail.jp
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1941
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1941
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1945
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1945
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1953
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1951
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1950
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
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