 In 1961, he helped to found the Progressive National Baptist Convention with Martin Luther King Jr., providing an important base of support for King's civil rights work, and served as its president from 1967 to 1969.At the request of Mayor Wagner in 1962, he served on a three-man committee that replaced Joseph T. Sharkey as chairman of the Kings County Democratic County Committee for ten months, until a replacement was selected.Taylor was pastor of Concord for 42 years before retiring in 1990.