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Walter Fauntroy

Walter Fauntroy

Former Congressman / Civil Rights Leader

Walter E. Fauntroy has spent more than forty years organizing in the streets of America.

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Walter E. Fauntroy has spent more than forty years organizing in the streets of America and in the suites of the U.S. Congress seeking to shape public policy that “declares good news to the poor, that binds up the broken hearted and sets at liberty them that are bound” in the United States and across the globe.

He has been pastor of the church of his childhood, New Bethel Baptist Church in Washington, DC since 1959. He is also currently the President of the National Black Leadership Roundtable (NBLR), the national network vehicle of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), composed of the heads of more than 200 national black organizations. The Roundtable was founded by Rev. Fauntroy in 1977 when he was chair of the CBC Brain Trust on Black Voter Participation and Network Development.

Rev. Fauntroy’s distinguished career of public service began in 1961 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. appointed him Director of the Washington Bureau of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. From that post he performed many valuable services for the movement of the 1960’s. He served as the DC Coordinator of the historic March on Washington in 1963; he was coordinator of the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965 and the Meridith Mississippi Freedom March of 1966. He was National Director of the 20th Anniversary March on Washington in 1983, and launched the Free South Africa Movement with his arrest at the South African Embassy in 1984.

His role in organizing these classic exercises of the First Amendment right of every American citizen to “peaceably assemble to petition the government” for changes in public policy, has resulted in many “strides towards freedom” here and around the world, including the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.

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