Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 228
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of Wyatt Tee Walker items. Various sizes; condition strong. Vp, 1980-2018
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Wyatt Tee Walker (1928-2018) was an important Civil Rights leader--a founder of the Congress of Racial Equality, director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and chief of staff to Martin Luther King. From 1967 to 2004, he served as pastor of the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, before retiring to Virginia. Offered here are his circular letter from the "Committee to Elect Wyatt Tee Walker to the New York State Assembly," in English and Spanish, September 1980 Manuscript notes from a memorial service in honor of Walker and a signed copy of his pamphlet "My Stroke of Grace," [2002].