(This story is derived from my book, WALTER THOMAS BAILEY: STARING INTO THE YAWNING GULF OF ETERNITY, with commentary by Dr. Kwesi Daniels of Tuskegee University. The book is available from Amazon.com and for checkout from the Kewanee Public Library.) Walter Thomas Bailey was a Black American born in 1881 in Kewanee, Illinois. He became… Continue reading Walter Thomas Bailey- A Kewanee ‘man of firsts’