Wyatt Tee Walker
Template:TOCnestleft Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker (born Aug. 16, 1929) is the Senior Pastor at Canaan Baptist Church, Harlem, New York.
Activism
The first of Walker's 17 arrests occurred when he led a group of Blacks through “Whites only” doors of the local library.[1]
Working for Martin Luther King Jr.
Walker was the Executive Director for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He also served as Chief of staff to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.[2]
Church Ministry
In the 1950’s Rev. Walker became the pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia.[3]
Wyatt has served as the Minister at the Abyssinian Baptist church.[4]
He then went on to become the Senior Pastor at Canaan Baptist Church, Harlem, New York in 1967 where he would pastor for the next 37 years. Walker was officially installed as Pastor by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on March 24, 1968. Ten days later Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.[5]
National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee
Circa 1962, Vice Chairmen of the Communist Party USA front, National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee were:[6]
- Dorothy Marshall, Coordinator
- Sylvia E. Crane, Organization Liaison, New York City, N.Y.
- Charles Jackson, East Coast Region
- Harry Barnard, Midwest Region
- Rev. Edward L. Peet, West Coast Region
- Carl Braden, Southern Region Committee
- John Lewis, Southern Region Committee
- Rev. C. T. Vivian, Southern Region Committee
- Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, Southern Region Committee
As of May 1964, Wyatt Tee Walker Dir., Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was listed as a sponsor of the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Working for Governor Nelson Rockefeller
In the 1970s, Wyatt Tee Walker served ten years as Urban Affairs Specialist for Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York.[7]
Syria
In 1984 Jesse Jackson was in Syria with Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker.
Religious Action Network
In 1988, Walker and Canon Frederick Williams co-founded the Religious Action Network a project of the American Committee on Africa during the height of the Anti-Apartheid struggle. RAN is a network of over 300 congregations throughout the U.S.[8]
Africa Action involvement
In 2009, Wyatt Tee Walker was listed on the Board of Directors and as the President Emeritus for Africa Action.[9]
Awards
- Jan. 18, 2009: Rev. Walker was a recipient of the "Keepers of the Flame" Award at the African-American Church Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC, during the inauguration events for Pres. Barack Obama.[10]
Publications
Walker is the author of twenty-one books including:
- Common Thieves
- The Harvard Paper
- Afrocentrism and Christian Faith
- Soweto Diary
- Race, Justice and Culture
- Millennium End Papers
References
- ↑ http://www.wyattteewalker.com/about_chrono.html
- ↑ http://africaaction.org/about/staff.php#board
- ↑ http://www.wyattteewalker.com/about_chrono.html
- ↑ http://africaaction.org/about/staff.php#board
- ↑ http://cbccnyc.org/church-history.asp
- ↑ National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee letterhead circa 1962
- ↑ http://www.wyattteewalker.com/about_chrono.html
- ↑ http://africaaction.org/about/staff.php#board
- ↑ http://africaaction.org/about/staff.php#board
- ↑ http://www.wyattteewalker.com/about_chrono.html