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How civil rights leader Wyatt Tee Walker revived hope after MLK's death

  • Written by Corey D. B. Walker, Visiting Professor, University of Richmond
Civil rights leader Wyatt Tee Walker addresses a crowd at St. Phillips AME Church in Atlanta. Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images

Four years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the novelist James Baldwin would write on the pages of Esquire magazine, “Since Martin’s death, in Memphis, and that tremendous day in...

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