Alexander Walters
Male, Deceased Person
1858 – 1917
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Who was Alexander Walters?
Bishop Alexander Walters was an American clergyman and noted civil rights leader. Born a slave 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.
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- Born
- 1858
United States of America - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- 1917
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on July 23, 2013
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