Reverend Addie Wyatt

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. Marcia Walker-McWilliams 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 struggle against economic, racial, and gender inequalities. Walker-McWilliams illuminates how Wyatt's own experiences with hardship and many forms of discrimination drove her work as an activist and leader. A parallel journey led her to develop an abiding spiritual faith, one that denied defeatism by refusing to accept such circumstances as immutable social forces.|

Cover Title Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Tell the Story 1. A Child of the Great Migration 2. In Search of Work and Community 3. For the Union Makes Us Strong 4. Civil Rights and Women's Rights Unionism 5. Challenges in the House of Labor 6. A Black Christian Feminist Illustrations 7. Unfinished Revolutions Epilogue: All Things Are Connected Notes Selected Bibliography Index|