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Civil Rights Leader Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker Dies at 88

HeadlineJan 24, 2018

In Virginia, civil rights leader Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker has died at the age of 88. The reverend was Martin Luther King Jr.’s chief of staff and the first full-time executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He was also a major anti-apartheid activist. He died Tuesday in his home in Chester, Virginia.

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