The Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker
Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement in this country, will be speaking at Hampden-Sydney College outside Farmville, Virginia. The program will take place at 11:30 AM, November 18th in the Parents and Friends Lounge, Venable Hall on the H-SC Campus.
Reverend Walker will present “The Civil Rights Movement in 1963″.
Both Reverend Walker and Martin Luther King, Jr. were attending Virginia Union University north of Richmond, when the two met and forged a lasting relationship. Upon receiving his Master’s Degree, Walker was the minister at Gullifield Baptist Church in Petersburg. It was at that time Dr. Walker started working with the National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and as a director on the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Reverend Walker is probably best known for his work organizing the mass marches in Birmingham, a plan which became the blueprint for future marches during the 1960’s. He has served as president of the Negro Heritage Library, and as minister at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City.
In the later portions of his career, Dr. Walker has turned his focus to Africa, mainly in South Africa during the Anti-Apartheid Movement and for free elections in South Africa.
The stories this man must tell of his life, full of excitement, sorrow, accomplishment, disappointment.
I encourage all those who are interested in this subject to show up and listen to this hero and trailblazer speak about his full life.
Hampden-Sydney and civil rights? Wha?