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Lectures in History

Ronald Walters' Civil Rights Career

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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University of Texas at Austin professor Peniel Joseph teaches a class on the life & career of Civil Rights pioneer Ronald Walters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next on Lectures in History. University of Texas at Austin, professor Poneal Joseph teaches a class on the life and career of civil rights pioneer Ronald Walters. In 1958, Walters organized a desegregation sit-in and was later influential in the spread of African-American studies as a scholarly field.

1:14.8

He also served as advisor to the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus

1:19.1

and was campaign manager and consultant for Jesse Jackson in his 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns.

1:30.3

Today we're going to be talking about the life of Ronald W. Walters and the search for black power,

1:36.3

1969 to 2010. Dr. Walters was an eminent political scientist who talked about and wrote extensively about black leadership,

1:47.0

wrote about reparations.

1:50.0

He anticipates the rise of Donald Trump in the 2016 election with a book on white nationalism.

1:57.0

Ron Walters was one of the leading figures in African American intellectual circles,

2:05.6

talking about, really talking about how institutional racism impacted black lives

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