From http://www.blackseek.com/bh/2001/218_WWalker.htm
Wyatt Tee Walker enjoys an well established record as pastor/theologian,
civil rights leader, and cultural historian. He is a double
graduate of Virginia Union University (VUU Undergraduate Studies
class of '50 and The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology,
'53), and holds a doctorate from Rochester Theological Center.
His graduate studies and research have taken him to the University
of Ife in Nigeria and the University of Ghana. An exhibiting
artist as well as a composer of sacred music, Jesse Jackson
has called him "Harlem's Renaissance Man" because of his multiple
gifts and varied careers.
Widely traveled,
he is regarded internationally as a human rights activist.
Wyatt was the first
African-American to meet with Chairman Yasir Arafat since
the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and Jericho, both occurrences
underscoring his involvement as an antiapartheid activist
and an advocate for Palestinian self-determination.
As a member of
the international religious community, he has preached on
every continent with the exception of Australia. He is a church
historian and prolific author having published many books.
He is also considered the nation's leading authority on the
music of the African-American Church.
His work in civil
and human rights brought him to the attention of a seminary
friend, Martin Luther King, Jr. King installed Walker in Atlanta
as the first full-time Executive Director of the fledgling
SCLC in 1960. Under Walker's administration, SCLC grew into
a national power in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
His experience
in government was via ten years of service as Urban Affairs
Specialist to Governor Nelson Rockefeller's troubleshooter,
quieting racial tensions that accompanied school desegregation
and labor disputes. 
From his office
in central Harlem, he proposed and gained approval for the
Harlem State Office Building and convened a community advisory
board that advised the Governor on the state agencies it should
house.
In 1975, Wyatt
Tee Walker joined the Board of Directors of Freedom National
Bank and served for a decade during which time, he served
three terms as Chairman of the Board of the nation's largest
and most profitable minority-owned bank.
Other good "sites
to see" are:
http://www.welovenewyork2001.com/page010.htm
http://aalbc.com/authors/wyatttee.htm
