Walter R. Dean, Jr.
(1934-2015)
MSA SC 3520-13258
Biography:
Born Walter Raleigh Dean, Jr. on December 12, 1934 in Baltimore City, Maryland. Son of Walter R. Dean, Sr. and Ruth (Alston) Dean; nine siblings. Attended Baltimore public schools; Paul Laurence Dunbar High School; Morgan State College, B.A., 1962; University of Maryland School of Social Work, M.S.W., 1968. Unmarried. Died September 18, 2015, in Baltimore City.
Walter R. Dean was a Baltimore educator, legislator, and civil rights activist. In March, 1960, Dean was among four students from Morgan State College who were arrested after trying to enter the segregated Hecht Co. restaurant at the Northwood Shopping Center. The students' protest was an early part in a long series of protests led by Morgan students to desegregate businesses in Baltimore. The criminal and civil cases brought against Dean, Manuel Deese, Herman Richards, Phillip Savage were among those which culminated in the landmark civil rights case State v. Bell.
After graduating from Morgan, Dean served in the U.S. Air Force, seeing time in Germany and Italy. After his discharge, he returned to Baltimore, and began teaching at Baltimore Junior College (now Baltimore City Community College), retiring in 2010.
Dean served in the Maryland House of Delegates as a Democrat from 1971 to 1982. He was also a member of Maryland Commission on Negro History and Culture and the Baltimore City Community College Board of Trustees.
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