Ninety-seven year old Mr. Wilfred J Walker, Sr. had been a Greenville, SC, resident since 1935 after graduating of Hampton Institute (University) in Virginia. He is credited with being the first African-American sports radio announcer in the state. He was the radio voice of the Sterling High Tigers football team, Greenville, South Carolina’s, all-black high school.
In 2010 Mr. Walker received the “Order of the Palmetto,” from the governor, the highest honor to be given to a civilian in the state of South Carolina. But, as he says, “All things were not always rosy” in his hometown…