4.
Wyatt Walker was a Baptist minister
from Massachusetts. He joined up with
Martin Luther King in 1960. He was
King’s “nuts and bolts” man, his
organizer and fixer. He was a mischief
maker—slender, elegant, and
intellectual, with a pencil-thin mustache
and a droll sense of humor. Every
Wednesday afternoon he reserved for a
round of golf. To him, women were
always “dahlin’,” as in “I’m not hard to
get along with, dahlin’s. I just have to
have perfection.” As a young man he
joined the Young Communist League
because—as he would always say,