Research Catalog

Title

Wyatt Tee Walker papers : additions, 1969-2005 (bulk ca. 1970-2005).

Author

Walker, Wyatt Tee

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Scott, John Henry, 1901-1980.

Description

8.3 lin. ft. (8 record cartons and 1 printbox)

Summary

• The Wyatt Tee Walker papers (Additions) reflect some of the activities in which Walker was involved from the 1980s until about 2003. Much of the material consists of his writings including sermons, lectures and essays, 1995-2001. Within these genres he frequently wrote about Martin Luther King, Jr., and religious and black related issues. The collection does not contain much material related to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and his other activities in the civil rights movement.
• There are manuscripts for a number of Walker's books as well as unpublished writings. Among the titles of the unpublished manuscripts are "The Phenomenon of Afrocentric Christian Faith," "China Diary," "Gospel in the Land of the Rising Sun," and "South African Odyssey," (descriptions of his travels to China, Japan, and South Africa, respectively, with members of his and other church groups). An unfinished manuscript about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X can also be found here. Incorporated in the collection are over a hundred sermons as well as conference papers, essays and speeches about the religious aspects of black life, the civil rights movement, and related topics. Included is the transcript of the 1963 television program; "The American Experience" with Walker, James Farmer, Malcolm X and Alan Morrison discussing "Race Relations in Crisis." There are also transcripts of his weekly radio addresses for the program, "1010 WINS Religious Commentary," 2001-2002
• Walker's membership on the board of trustees of Virginia Union University (where he was awarded the Master of Divinity) is represented by president's reports to the board, minutes and associated material, 1982 and 1992. Files also discuss other organizations and activities in which Walker was involved, such as the International Freedom Mobilization (a summit conference of black religious leaders on apartheid held at the United Nations), 1979. There are-also some personal papers, commemorative programs, an news clippings about Walker, in addition to information about his photographic work overseas and in this country.
• The collection includes papers by others such as "Black Political Theology: The Case of Reverend Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.," by Rev. John Henry Scott III, 1985, and papers about music, singing, the black church, and the civil rights movement.

Subjects

• Walker, Wyatt Tee
• X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
• International Freedom Mobilization (New York, N.Y.)
• Civil rights movements > United States
• African Americans > Religion
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
• African American churches > New York (State) > New York
• African American clergy > New York (State) > New York
• Speeches
• African Americans > Music
• Sermons
• Black author
• Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.)
• Church music > United States

Genre/Form

• Sermons.
• Speeches.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
• Audiotapes, videotapes and films transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
• Books and magazines transferred to General Research and Reference Division.

Source (note)

• Wyatt Tee Walker

Biography (note)

• Minister, author, and civil rights activist.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Preliminary finding aid available.

Call Number

Sc MG 216

OCLC

229128156

Author

Walker, Wyatt Tee.

Title

Wyatt Tee Walker papers : additions, 1969-2005 (bulk ca. 1970-2005).

Biography

Minister, author, and civil rights activist.

Indexes

Preliminary finding aid available.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Walker, Wyatt Tee. Somebody's caling my name : Black sacred music.

Walker, Wyatt Tee. Spirits that dwell in deep woods : the prayer and praise hymns of the Black religious experience.

Scott, John Henry, 1901-1980. Black political theology : the case of Reverend Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 216