According to the 1930 Federal Census, Walter was a public school teacher in Wayne, Mississippi, likely at the Rosenwald school there, since he shared a house with four other teachers. He married Mattye Milton Copeland between 1930 and 1933. Mattye gave birth to her daughter Patricia in January 1934 in Kentucky according to Kentucky Birth records, though the 1940 census lists Patricia’s birthplace as Iowa. By 1934, Walter had settled into work as an extension agent. The Prairie View Standard reported that Professor W. A. Flowers of the Texas Extension Service, was on campus for a conference ( Both Walter and Mattye finished their M.S. degrees in 1937 and were living in Texarkana, Texas, by February of that year, when Walter was listed as a teacher at the Rosenwald school in Corley, Texas, and one of four Area Supervisors of Vocational agriculture in the Negro schools of Texas.
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Photo Credits Tennessee State Yearbook
Outstanding educators attend conferences at Prairie View. (1934, June). The Prairie View standard, 25.10, p. 3. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=pv-newspapers ).
