Henlee Hulix Barnette (August 14, 1911 – October 20, 2004) was an American social activist, professor of Christian ethics, minister, and author.
He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and met with Nikita Khrushchev to set up a college student exchange program with the Soviet Union.
[4][5] On June 7, 1954, Barnette testified before a subcommittee of Congress in favor of strengthening the role of the United Nations.
[4] In 1957, he met with Nikita Khrushchev at the Kremlin and helped establish an exchange program for college students between the United States and the Soviet Union.
[10][11] As a result of the meeting with Khrushchev and his relationship with King, Barnette was the subject of FBI investigation and surveillance between 1957 and 1974.
[3] After Charlotte's death in childbirth in 1953, Barnette was remarried in 1956 to Helen Poarch, with whom he had a daughter, Martha, and a son, James, known as Jim.
[3][4] His oldest son, John, served in the United States Air Force in the Vietnam War.
[7] His daughter, Martha Barnette, is also an author and presents the weekly radio show A Way with Words on the subject of language.