Wyatt Tee Walker, a leader in the civil rights movement who helped the Rev. Walker was a key player in the civil rights movement, brought in by King to be the executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference three years after the civil rights organization was founded. Henry Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer, Richmond’s first black mayor and a former state lawmaker, said Walker came from modest circumstances to live a tremendous life as “one of the great American heroes.”“There will never be another one like Wyatt Tee Walker,” Marsh said. “It was one of the most important documents of the century,” Walker told The Birmingham News in 2001. Walker had come to the SCLC post from Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, where he had been the preacher since 1952 and was active in local civil rights efforts.

Source: National Post January 24, 2018 04:07 UTC