Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker

Wyatt Tee Walker, a Virginia Union alumnus, was chief of staff to Martin Luther King Jr. during the Birmingham campaign and later a major Harlem pastor. He helped design the Project C strategy that filled Birmingham’s jails.

SCLC chief of staff during the 1963 Birmingham campaign.
Longtime pastor of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem.
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2007.