George Walker Newspaper Article, 1991

Morton Museum of Collierville History

Collierville, West Tennessee

Selected by Executive Director Neecole Gregory

George Walker was the first Black police officer and later the first Black Alderman Collierville, Tennessee. His murder in 2001 remains the town’s only unsolved homicide. In this audio clip Neecole Gregory discusses a letter of Walker’s that shows his interests as a young man and demonstrates that progress is not always linear.