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Wyatt Tee Walker

The Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, civil rights leader, pastor, composer, scholar, and theologian, was born on August 16, 1929 in Brockton, Massachusetts to John Wise and Maude Pin Walker. He earned a B.S. in chemistry and physics from Virginia Union University in Richmond in 1950, graduating magna cum laude. That same year he married Theresa Ann Walker. In 1953 Dr. Walker became pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia. He also served as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in that city and as director of the state's Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Dr. Walker founded the Petersburg Improvement Association (PIA) which was patterned after the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).

During his time in Petersburg, Dr. Walker worked to integrate the town's public library, as well as lunch counters at the bus stop cafes. His work to integrate the public library included walking in the "Whites Only" door and asking for the first volume of Douglas Southall Freeman&#

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Walker, Wyatt Tee

August 16, 1929 to January 23, 2018

Described by Martin Luther King as “one of the keenest minds of the nonviolent revolution,” Wyatt Tee Walker served as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1960 to 1964 (Press release, 23 June 1964).

Walker was born 16 August 1929, in Brockton, Massachusetts, to John Wise and Maude Pinn Walker. Walker graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1950 from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, with a BS in both chemistry and physics. He then entered Virginia Union’s Graduate School of Religion, serving as student body president before receiving his BD in 1953. At a meeting of the Inter-Seminary Movement, Walker met King, then a student at Crozer Theological Seminary.

In 1953 Walker accepted a position as minister at Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia. Walker also held a number of leadership roles with local civil rights organizations. He served as president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peop

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Early Years

Walker was born on August 16, 1929, in Brockton, Massachusetts, the tenth of eleven children, to Pastor John Wise Walker and Maude Pinn Walker. When he was still a baby, his family moved to Merchantville, New Jersey, where he received his primary and secondary education, and where, at nine years old, he and his siblings refused to be turned away from a segregated movie theater. After graduating with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and physics from Virginia Union University in Richmond in 1950, he earned his master of divinity degree in 1953 from Virginia Union University. While in the seminary, Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. at an interseminary meeting while King was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania.

Petersburg, SCLC, and the Civil Rights Movement

Walker served as the pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg from 1953 until 1959. As such, he stood alongside King as one of a group of younger, more liberal, more activist ministers who became important leaders of the civil rights movement. Walker became the leader of