Reaching Black Pastors with A Pro-Life Message.

Walter B. Hoye II is both Founder and President of the Issues4Life Foundation, the California Civil Rights Foundation, Founder of the Frederick Douglass
Foundation of California, co-founder and Executive Member of the National Black Pro-Life Coalition, a Board Member of The Morning Center (providing
free full-service maternity care for women in urban and under-served areas), a published author (Leadership from the IN|SIDE Out), a board
member of The Ruth Institute, a full-time pro-life activist, and a leadership consultant.

As a young man, Walter played football at Michigan State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Sociology. He graduated
from the United States International University, now Alliant International University, with a Master’s degree in Business Administration in 1983.

In 1984, God used the premature birth of his firstborn son (six months, 2.1 pounds) to teach Rev. Hoye that the preborn is a person, a living &amp, breathing
human being.

Walter is an ordained Baptist minister. He served as Minister of Christian Education at the St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oceanside, California,
as Assistant to the Pastor and Director of the Youth Department at the Greater Faith Baptist Church in Stockton, California, and as the Executive Elder
of the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church of Berkeley. In May of 2010, Walter resigned to work full-time in the Pro-Life movement. He was asked
to join a group of pro-life sidewalk counselors, to pray and give out literature to women on their way to the entrance of an abortuary. His ministry
blossomed so much that the abortuary lost a great deal of business, and they complained to the Oakland authorities, who literally created a law just
to put Rev. Hoye in jail. Though in court Rev. Hoye and his attorney from Life Legal Defense proved both that Walter did absolutely nothing illegal
and that the only witness against him blatantly lied, the pro-abortion judge made sure Rev. Hoye unjustly went to jail, which he did. The judge, in
fact, sought to sentence Walter to four *years* in jail for standing on a public sidewalk, but could not because of a legal technicality.

Walter leads the Oakland pro-life march. He competes in the San Francisco Marathon and catches an NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB game whenever he can.

Readings &amp, Resources

• Summit for Survivors of the Sexual Revolution, where Walter is the keynote speaker at our annual Awards
  Dinner: ruthinstitute.org/summit-2021
• Issues4Life Foundation, issues4life.org
• Black and Pro-Life in America, by Robert Artigo with foreward by Alveda
  King, about Rev. Hoye (Ignatius Press)
  • blackandprolifeinamerica.faith
• Leadership website, walterhoye.com
• I Am A Person, iamaperson.us
• National Black Pro-Life Coalition, blackprolifecoalition.life
• Leadership From The Inside Out: It’s What’s in You That Matters Most,
  by Walter B. Hoye II (Xulon Press bookstore)
• California Civil Rights Foundation, civilrightsfoundation.org
• The Frederick Douglass Foundation of California, fdfca.org
• find Walter on social media:
  • YouTube, youtube.com/user/walterbhoyeii
    
  • Facebook, Issues4Life.Foundation