Reverend Addie Wyatt
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Reverend Addie Wyatt

Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality

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eBook - ePub

Reverend Addie Wyatt

Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality

About this book

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.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Tell the Story
  7. 1. A Child of the Great Migration
  8. 2. In Search of Work and Community
  9. 3. For the Union Makes Us Strong
  10. 4. Civil Rights and Women's Rights Unionism
  11. 5. Challenges in the House of Labor
  12. 6. A Black Christian Feminist
  13. 7. Unfinished Revolutions
  14. Epilogue: All Things Are Connected
  15. Notes
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Illustrations
  19. About the Author

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Information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780252081996
9780252040528
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
eBook ISBN
9780252098963

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