User:Charlotteo14/Dr. Hanes Walton, Jr.

Education and early career
=== '''Walton was born in Augusta, Georgia, on September 25, 1941. He was educated in Athens, Georgia, graduating from the public school system with honors in 1959. Walton attended Morehouse College as an undergraduate, earning his AB degree in 1963. He then went to Atlanta University for graduate school, earning an MA degree in 1964. Walton pursued his PhD in government at Howard University, graduating in 1967. This made Walton the first person to ever receive a PhD in government from Howard University. ''' === Walton experienced many exclusions in his early career involving supremacist and colonial political visions. For this reason, he predominantly published his research on political parties, Southern politics, civil rights regulatory enforcement, and Black political traditions in smaller or regional academic journals at the start of his career. He went on to help establish the National Conference of Black Political Scientists in 1971 and often pressured the American Political Science Association to acknowledge the study of Black politics.

Career
In 1966, Walton was hired as a faculty member at Atlanta University. In 1967 he moved to Savannah State College, and then returned to Atlanta University in 1971. In 1984 he became a professor at The University of Georgia, also accepting a faculty associate position at the University of Michigan in 1992. He was a professor at the University of Michigan for the remainder of his career, but his affiliation with The University of Georgia continued until 2013. At the University of Michigan, Walton was affiliated both with the political science department and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies.

Walton was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of books and textbooks during his career, with some sources attributing 21 books to him and others attributing as many as 25. Several of these books, such as African American power and politics: The political context variable, The political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Black politics and black political behavior: A linkage analysis, continue to be actively cited years after Walton's death. Walton has also been credited with publishing 80 journal articles and 25 book chapters. Walton's publications in highly selective journals like the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Politics include early studies of gender differences in political perceptions, particularly as these differences intersect with race when it comes to African-American candidates and voters, as well as systematic studies of Black political parties.

Some of these publications also include “The Study of African American Politics as Social Danger: Clues from the Disciplinary journals.” which suggests that some political scientists do not study race and the African-American political experience because they see research efforts as a form of social danger, making it a pivotal piece in the study of Black politics '''. Another notable piece is "The Impact of Explicit Racial Cues on Gender Differences in Support for Confederate Symbols and Partisanship" which expands on how gender is a considerable factor in this area of study'''

Walton was elected to prominent service positions in the discipline, serving as the Vice President of the American Political Science Association from 2012 until 2013. He was also the recipient of several major awards, including winning the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971, the Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellowship for Minority-Group Scholars in 1979, and a Ford Foundation fellowship in 1982.

Selected works

 * The political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1971)
 * Black politics and black political behavior: A linkage analysis (1994)
 * African American power and politics: The political context variable (1997)
 * The Impact of Explicit Racial Cues on Gender Differences in Support for Confederate Symbols and Partisanship (2010)
 * The Study of African American Politics as Social Danger: Clues from the Disciplinary journals (1997)
 * The Literature on Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign (2009)
 * R. R. Wright, Congress, President Truman and the First National Public African-American Holiday: National Freedom Day (1991)