Lucius Walker (August 3, 1930 – September 7, 2010) was an American Baptist minister who served as executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization in the 1960s and was a persistent advocate for ending the United States embargo against Cuba.
[1] In August 1988, Walker was wounded while on a river boat traveling to the Bluefields region on the East coast on Nicaragua that was attacked by Contras.Two people were killed.
[1] As part of Pastors for Peace, Walker made 21 annual missions to Cuba, what he called "friendshipments", by way of Canada and Mexico.
During his final trip, in July 2010, Walker brought medical equipment, including EKG machines, incubators and medicines.
[4] A resident of Demarest, New Jersey, Walker died at age 80 on September 7, 2010, at his home there of a heart attack.