Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality
Marcia Walker-McWilliams
Abstract
Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman—Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of change in twentieth-century America. The first female president of a local chapter of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Wyatt worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt and appeared as one of Time magazine's Women of the Year in 1975. This book tells the incredible story of Addie Wyatt and her times. What began for Wyatt as a journey to overcome poverty became a lifetime commitment to social justice and the collective ... More
Keywords: labor leader, civil rights activist, feminist, African American woman, clergywoman, Reverend Addie Wyatt, poverty, social justice, racial discrimination, gender inequality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252040528 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252040528.001.0001 |
