LEADER 05254oam 22006494a 450 001 9910151612203321 005 20240505192014.0 010 $a0-252-09896-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000951718 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001643077 035 $a(OCoLC)958585913 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56959 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4792724 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000951718 100 $a20160819d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aReverend Addie Wyatt $eFaith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality /$fMarcia Walker-McWilliams 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana, Chicago and Springfield $cUniversity of Illinois Press$d2016 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 225 0 $aWomen, gender, and sexuality in American history 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-252-08199-4 311 $a0-252-04052-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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 -- 7. Unfinished Revolutions -- Epilogue: All Things Are Connected -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations -- About the Author. 330 $a"Reverend Addie Wyatt (1924-2012) was one of the most influential African American female labor leaders in the twentieth century. Wyatt lived in Chicago for most of her life and while there became a nationally known civil rights activist, ordained minister, and outspoken feminist. She was the first female president of a local chapter of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, worked alongside Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama and during marches in Chicago, and Eleanor Roosevelt appointed her to the Protective Labor Legislation Committee of President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women. In this biography, Walker-McWilliams tells the story of the reverend's commitment to social justice, which fueled her activism and leadership in the American labor movement, while also setting her life story in the sociohistorical climate in which Wyatt emerged. Walker-McWilliams argues that what began for Wyatt as an individual journey to break away from poverty became a commitment to a collective struggle against economic, racial, and gender inequalities and a lifetime of organizing and activism. Based on oral histories, interviews conducted with Wyatt's colleagues and families, Wyatt's collection of personal papers, and extensive archival data, Walker-McWilliams illuminates the ways Wyatt grew into the roles of activist and leader as a result of personal experiences with poverty, racism, sexism, and discrimination, and developed a spiritual faith that refused to see these circumstances as immutable structural forces"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of change in twentieth century America. The first female president of a local chapter of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Wyatt worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt and appeared as one of Time magazine's Women of the Year in 1975. Marcia Walker-McWilliams tells the incredible story of Addie Wyatt and her times. What began for Wyatt as a journey to overcome poverty became a lifetime commitment to social justice and the collective struggle against economic, racial, and gender inequalities. Walker-McWilliams illuminates how Wyatt's own experiences with hardship and many forms of discrimination drove her work as an activist and leader. A parallel journey led her to develop an abiding spiritual faith, one that denied defeatism by refusing to accept such circumstances as immutable social forces"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aWomen, gender, and sexuality in American history. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies$2bisacsh 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies$2bisacsh 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women$2bisacsh 606 $aEquality$zUnited States 606 $aCivil rights$zUnited States 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. 615 0$aEquality 615 0$aCivil rights 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 676 $a305.42092 686 $aBIO022000$aSOC001000$aSOC028000$2bisacsh 700 $aWalker-McWilliams$b Marcia$f1984-$01249487 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151612203321 996 $aReverend Addie Wyatt$92895548 997 $aUNINA