Robert Gilbert: Pastor, civil rights leader, and Baylor’s first African-American graduate
…in class in a derogatory way,” he said. “If race came up and we were discussing race, we just went into it the way it was, and I never did skirt any of these issues.” It was around this time that Gilbert began to feel his path change. He had gone to Baylor thinking a law degree would be the way to change the injustices around him — but he began to understand the impact he could have on those around him as a pastor. “There was a kind of yearning, a…