Willie Walker (1947 - 1982)

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Walker family gathering, August 1953.

Lillian Eliza Walker Ralston

Nellie Jane (Rickard ) Walker (Headstone)

Nellie Jane (Rickard ) Walker

William T Walker

Mitzi Ann Walker 1904-1991

Carolyn Y (Walker) Howard

Reva Walker

Reva Walker

Robert Walker, Jr.

Robert Walker, Jr.

Robert Walker, Jr.

Robert Walker, Jr.

Jennifer Jones

Robert Walker, Jr.

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In 1947, in the year that Willie Walker was born, on April 15th, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, playing first base. He was the first black man to play in the Major Leagues. Since the 1880's, professional baseball had been segregated and blacks played in the "Negro leagues". He went on to play for 10 years.

In 1955, at the age of merely 8 years old, Willie was alive when in January, President Eisenhower sent direct aid to South Vietnam. In February, U.S. advisors were sent to train troops.

In 1962, when he was just 15 years old, lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy.

In 1976, he was 29 years old when on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."

In 1982, in the year of Willie Walker's passing, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".