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Wyatt Tee Walker: Chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights

  • Written by Taylor McNeilly, Reference and Processing Archivist, University of Richmond
Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker during a news interview in 2004.AP Photo/Frank Franklin II

Much of the civil rights movement is remembered through the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. There were a number of people who also made valuable contributions but aren’t known as well.

Among them was Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker – hailed as “one of the...

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