Day 5--- Black History Month

                         

Wyatt Tee Walker

Wyatt Tee Walker (born 16 August 1929) is an African American pastor, national civil rights leader, theologian, and cultural historian. He was a chief of staff for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and in 1958 became an early board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He helped found a Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) chapter in 1958. As executive director of the SCLC from 1960 to 1964, Walker helped to bring the group to national prominence.
Walker started as pastor at historic Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, where he entered the Civil Rights Movement. For 37 years Walker was senior pastor at Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, New York, where he also co-founded the Religious Action Network of Africa Action to oppose apartheid in South Africa, and chaired the Central Harlem Local Development Corporation.Over the last two decades, Dr. Walker has emerged as the nation’s foremost authority on the music of the African American religious experience by the sheer dint of his productivity and dogged research Following the publication of his landmark work, Somebody’s Calling My Name, which is considered a classic in many quarters, five additional works in the field of ethnomusicology have come from his pen. The three-volume Spirits That Dwell in Deep Woods has been hailed as pioneer work which he continues to pursue. No one has written as much or as carefully on the meter music of the African American religious tradition. Several recent works accent Dr. Walker’s prolific writing prowess: The Harvard Paper, which details the economic profile of the African-American Church; The Soweto Diary, a personal eyewitness account of the free election in South Africa; Race, Justice and Culture, with a forward by Dan Rather, former CBS News journalist and anchor; and Millennium End Papers, the first release of 2000. In all, Dr. Walker has produced 27 works since 1979.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Tee_Walker--------http://www.cbccnyc.org/emeritus.html