Baylor to add statues honoring first Black graduates to campus landscape
…him. After graduation, he spent three years as the first African-American teacher at a Waco-area middle school before realizing he felt a calling to ministry. Despite severe health challenges, Gilbert pastored at churches throughout Waco and the surrounding area, and was well known as a local civil rights leader. He passed away in 1992 at age 50. Walker also transferred to Baylor from Paul Quinn, excelling academically from an early age and findi…