He joined the youth division of the NAACP and worked to register voters in order to help the election of John F. Kennedy, and befriended activist Medgar Evers.
[3] After completing his graduate studies, he returned to Mississippi to teach and conduct a choir at Tougaloo College.
[3] By the 1990s, he was also a regular at the Boston Lyric Opera, performing roles such as Stephen Kumalo in Lost in the Stars, by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson; Master Ford in Verdi's Falstaff; and Escamillo in Carmen on the Common, a public park production of Bizet's Carmen performed for an estimated 140,000 people.
[3] He was also passionate about the Great American Songbook, presenting an annual concert of this material for many years.
Honeysucker was also a voice teacher who taught on the faculties of the Boston Conservatory and the Longy School of Music.