Hanes Walton Papers

Hanes Walton papers

The materials in this online repository form part of a larger Hanes Walton, Jr. papers record group held by the Bentley Historical Library. For a more complete index to the materials, please consult the collection's online finding aid.

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Abstract:
Papers documenting the professional life and advocacy of Hanes Walton, Jr., an eminent professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Collection includes correspondence, book reviews, dissertations produced under his guidance, materials demonstrating Walton’s participation in university minority advocacy committees and publications, course syllabi and exams, oral histories and statistics gathered in the course of Walton’s research, and files pertaining to his role as a supporter of historically black colleges and universities in the United States.