Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams spent over five decades working at the University in the department of Economics as a distinguished Professor. He grew up in Philadelphia to an impoverished family and used his experiences in life to earn a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. It was in Southern California where he started to challenge those around him to “look beneath surface phenomena for deeper causes and consequences” of racial inequality. Williams went to great lengths to show his theories on a wide scale.