Wade Watts
Deceased Person
1919 – 1998
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Who was Wade Watts?
Wade Watts was an African American gospel preacher and civil rights activist from Oklahoma. He served as the state president of the Oklahoma chapter of the NAACP for sixteen years, challenging the Ku Klux Klan through Christian love doctrine. He worked with Thurgood Marshall and developed a friendship with Martin Luther King during the American civil rights movement, and has been cited as a mentor by the current leader of the NAACP in Oklahoma, Miller Newman, and his nephew, former congressman, J. C. Watts.
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- Born
- Sep 23, 1919
Kiamichi, Oklahoma - Lived in
- Oklahoma
- Died
- Dec 13, 1998
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on July 23, 2013
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