Martin Luther King, Jr., Handy was active in the Civil Rights movement and helped lead the Louisiana State Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Baton Rouge chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
William Talbot Handy, a choir member of the Tuskeegee University Quartet and a Methodist minister and district superintendent who sang at the funeral of Booker T.
[7][8] He helped lead the Louisiana State Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the Baton Rouge Council on Human Relations, the Baton Rouge chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Louisiana Council of Churches.
[6] Hand In 1968, Handy was the first African-American hired to serve in an executive capacity at the United Methodist Publishing House,[9] a denominational agency in Nashville, Tennessee that had previously been accused of racial bigotry.
[7] On July 15, 1980, he was elected bishop at the South Central Jurisdictional Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas and assigned to lead the Missouri Area of the United Methodist Church.