Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality

by Marcia Walker-McWilliams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081994
• ISBN13: 9780252081996
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"