Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker

Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor of Petersburg’s Gillfield Baptist Church in the 1950s, was known as one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s top advisors and helped to plan the Albany and Birmingham campaigns, the Children’s March, and the March on Washington, and assisted in the publication of Letter from Birmingham Jail as Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1960 through 1964.

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