Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker

Wyatt Tee Walker

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Wyatt Tee Walker
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The Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, was the senior pastor of the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem.

Walker worked with King to further the civil rights movement in the 1960s and is considered one of his historians.

He is an authority on the music of the African-American religious experience and has traveled widely as a human rights activist. He is world commissioner of the Program to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches and is president of the American Committee on Africa and the secretary-general of its Religious Action Network. He is also chairman of the consortium for the Central Harlem Development responsible for a $65 million in housing construction in central Harlem.

Title: Somebody's Calling My Name
Publisher: Judson Press Date
Published: November 1995
Format: Trade Paper

Title: Road to Damascus; A Journey of Faith
Publisher: Martin Luther King Press Date
Published: January 1985
Format: Trade Cloth

The American
Committee on Africa

Note new address below, effective March 24, 1998

The American Committee on Africa was founded in 1953 to support African independence and majority rule. ACOA has worked with virtually every African independence leader from Kwame Nkrumah to Nelson Mandela. ACOA is working to defend human rights, save U.S. aid for Africa and help the people of southern Africa rebuild their communities. The Religious Action Network, a project of ACOA, is a network of 200 congregations working for peace and freedom in Africa.

Wyatt Tee Walker, President
Jennifer Davis, Executive Director

Note new address below, effective March 24, 1998

For further information write, phone, fax or e-mail to:

American Committee on Africa
50 Broad Street, Suite 711
New York, NY 10004
Tel: (212) 785-1024
Fax: (212) 785-1078
E-mail: acoa@igc.apc.org

Visit their website at: http://www.prairienet.org/acas/acoa.html