Alexander Walters | |
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| Born | August 1, 1858 Bardstown, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | February 2, 1917 (aged 58) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Minister |
| Political party | Democratic |
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| Religion | AME Zion |
Bishop Alexander Walters (August 1, 1858 – February 2, 1917)[1] was an American clergyman and civil rights leader. Born enslaved in Bardstown, Kentucky, just before the Civil War, he rose to become a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at the age of 33, then president of the National Afro-American Council, the nation's largest civil rights organization, at the age of 40, serving in that post for most of the next decade.[2]
- ^ Larry G. Murphy, J. Gordon Melton, Gary L. Ward (eds), "Walters, Alexander", in Encyclopedia of African American Religions, Routledge, 2011, p. 818.
- ^ Fleming, "Alexander Walters," in Dictionary of American Negro Biography.