Charles t walker biography
- Charles T. Walker was.
- Walker, D. D., who is popularly called “The Black Spurgeon,” stands first among eminent and successful Negro preachers.
- 1892.
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Reverend C. T. Walker (1858-1921)
Year Erected: 2020
Marker Text: Rev. Charles T. Walker was born into slavery in 1858 near Hephzibah, later moving to Augusta to study divinity at The Augusta Institute (now Morehouse College). Walker received his ordination at Franklin Covenant Baptist Church and established Augusta’s Tabernacle Baptist Church in 1885. Walker traveled to the Middle East and Europe in 1891, visiting the renowned Rev. Charles Spurgeon’s church in London. In 1899, President McKinley appointed him as a chaplain during the US occupation of Cuba following the Spanish-American War. Walker relocated to Mount Olivet Baptist Church in New York and established the first African-American YMCA in Harlem. Returning to Augusta, he hosted John D. Rockefeller and William Howard Taft at Tabernacle and Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver at the Walker Baptist Institute. Walker lived at 1011 Gwinnett Street until his death in 1921.
Erected by the Georgia Historical Society, The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Historic Augusta, Inc., and C.T. Walk
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A SKETCH
OF
Charles T. Walker, D. D.
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PASTOR OF TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH,
AUGUSTA, GA.
BY
Silas Xavier Floyd, A. B.,
EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Sentinel Publishing Co.,
1892.
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Charles Thomas Walker was born on the 11th day of January, 1858, at Hephzibah, Ga. Hephzibah is in Richmond county about 14 miles south-west of Augusta. He is the youngest of 11 children of whom 6 are dead and 5 are living. His father, Thomas Walker, was buried the day before he was born. His mother, Mrs. Hannah Walker, died in 1866, little Charley being, at the time, only 8 years old.
Thus, even before Charles was born, his mother was draped in the weeds of widowhood, and he first opened his eyes on the light of this world as a fatherless child. Thus, also, in early childhood, even before he had any realizing sense of his true condition, he was compelled by the stern, but beneficent discipline of an Alwise Providence to wail forth the cry of complete orphanage.
On Wednesday before the first Sunday in June, 1873, whi
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Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. :
("The Black Spurgeon,") pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City /
by Silas Xavier Floyd ; with an introduction by Robert Stuart MacArthur.
Description
- Main Author
- Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923.
- Related Names
- Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950, former owner.
Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-, former owner.
Billops, Camille, former owner.
Bethea, Juanita, former owner.
Association for the Study of African-American Life and History
National Baptist Publishing Board.
Mount Olivet Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.) - Language(s)
- English
- Published
- Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902.
- Subjects
- Walker, Charles T. > Walker, Charles T. / (Charles Thomas), > Walker, Charles T. / (Charles Thomas), / 1858-1921.
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