Wyatt Tee Walker

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Wyatt Tee Walker (born August 16, 1929) is a United States black civil rights leader. He worked with Martin Luther King and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. He was the third executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1960 and 1964 after John L. Tilley (1957-1959) and Ella Baker (1958-1960). In 1967 he became Senior Pastor of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, New York. Since his retirement is 2004 he is pastor emeritus living in Virginia. Also a group of kids in Norfolk, Virginia performed a show entitled 'Walking with Walker" that turned Walkers life into a show in 2007.

He was inducted in the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site on January 12, 2008^[1]

Walker was an active in the anti-apartheid movement. He served on the National Committee on the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and in the 1980s served on the ACOA Board, including as President. He was the co-founder, along with Canon Frederick B. Williams, of the Religious Action Network (RAN) of the ACOA in 1988 during the height of the Anti-Apartheid struggle. RAN is a network of over 300 congregations throughout the U.S. As Senior Pastor at Canaan Baptist Church he hosted numerous African leaders of struggles against colonialism and apartheid including Nelson Mandela.

Walker is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. [1]