This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
When he was growing up in Detroit, Walter King wondered why his family didn’t celebrate cultural holidays the way his Jewish and Polish classmates did.
“Who is the African God?
That’s what I want to know,” he asked her when he was 15.
“Blacks didn’t really have any knowledge of their history and culture before slavery,” she explained, as recounted in the book “Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism” (2012), by the scholar Tracey E. Hucks.
Persons:
Walter King, “, ”, didn’t, Tracey E
Organizations:
Times, Blacks
Locations:
Detroit