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Walter B. Hill, Jr., historian, professor and archivist died of leukemia July 29, 2008 in Washington, DC.
In 2005, I produced three short videos for the Humanities Council of Washington, DC on the Charters of Freedom (the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution). This series included the Emancipation Proclamation which is displayed once a year (usually February) at the National Archives in Washington, DC. The video shorts were for the National Endowment for the Humanities' We the People initiative and broadcast on DCTV public access. This was not our first meeting. I met Walter Hill and became familiar with his work years before as a summer intern at Howard University where he was adjunct professor of history. Hill was a historian and senior archivist at the National Archives and is credited for making Archives records on African Americans accessible to scholars and the general public. He was always a friend to enthusiastic historians of all ages.