| Summary: | Pastor and civil rights activist Wyatt Tee Walker was born on August 16, 1929 in Brockton, Massachusetts. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry and Physics, Magna Cum Laude, from Virginia Union University. He remained at Virginia Union and attended the Graduate School of Divinity, where he received his M.Div. degree in 1953. Walker, together with Dr. King, founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. In 1960, Walker was appointed the organization's third executive director where he planned the Birmingham Campaign and helped Dr. King organize the March on Washington, both in 1963. In 1967, Walker became the Senior Pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, where he served for thirty-seven years. He earned his D.Min. degree from the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in 1975. Named as one of Ebony magazine's "15 Greatest Black Preachers" in 1993, Walker retired from his post at Canaan Baptist Church and moved to Chester, Virginia with his wife Ann in 2004.
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