Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with William "Sonny" Walker
William "Sonny" Walker
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| Other authors / contributors: | Walker, William "Sonny", 1933-2016, interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2011 April 21.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2012 March 18.
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| Summary: | Civil rights activist, nonprofit executive, and management consultant William "Sonny" Walker was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on December 13, 1933. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Teaching in Arkansas public schools, he helped prepare the Little Rock Nine to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1956. In 1965, Walker started the Crusade for Opportunity and began serving as director of the Economic Opportunity Agency of Little Rock and Pulaski County. Walker then became head of the Arkansas State Economic Opportunity Office. He began serving as a division director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Renewal in Atlanta, Georgia in 1972. In 1976, Walker became a member of the Board of Directors for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, where he served as interim director in 1994. Walker also worked as Coretta Scott-King's speech writer. Walker passed away on June 15, 2016.
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