In 1960, Walker took charge as the first full-time executive director of the conference – a position from which he would ...

reflecting on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. That includes at Western Michigan University, where the Lewis Walker Institute held their annual MLK Teach-In.

The Civil Rights Movement is often heralded as a watershed moment in American history. It is remembered for dismantling ...

On Feb. 1, 1968, two more men, Echol Cole, 36, and Robert Walker, 30, were crushed in ... efforts to rebuild this cornerstone of the civil rights movement," they wrote. Before the fire, the ...

Critics often compare climate activists to a sanitized memory of the civil rights movement as “a purely peaceful movement” to argue that radical and confrontational tactics won’t win hearts ...