Ronald Walters

Community

Late Civil Rights Leader Ron Walters Honored In His Hometown With New Branch Library

Carla Eckels

Even though Ron Walters' career took him around the country and around the world, his hometown of Wichita has not forgotten him.
Race

Black Political Leader Ron Walters Honored In His Kansas Hometown

Carla Eckels

During the Civil Rights movement, the late scholar Ronald Walters helped lead a sit-in that desegregated the Dockum Drug Store. Now his hometown of Wichita, Kan., is naming a library after him.