- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (2 video files (57 min., 14 sec.)) : sound, color.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker
- Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1003150665
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
005714
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Chester, Virginia 2010 June 24.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civil Rights Activist Pastor.
- Added Author
Walker, Wyatt Tee, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.