If you have been enjoying the daily local Black history facts brought to you by the Rockford Register Star and Rockford Public library in honor of Black History Month, you can thank Jawaun Walters.
Walters, 26, is an information services librarian at the Rockford Public Library who accepted the challenge of finding one interesting local Black history fact for each day of February to be published online at rrstar.com and in print in the Rockford Register Star.
Walters, a Pouphkeepsie, New York, native, arrived in Rockford in June.
“I’ve always had an interest in history,” he said. “I was an undergrad history major. So when I got here, it piqued my interest to know that there was a whole department based on local history in Rockford.”
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Walters was an university archivist at the University of St. Francis in Joliet. He received his master’s degree in information technology with a specialization in library science from the University of Michigan.