THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Rev. Addie Wyatt
(1926-2012)
“Change Can Come, But You Can’t Do It Alone.”
Ordained Minister. Founding Director of Amalgamated Meat Cutters. Founding Director of Butcher Workman of North America Women’s Affairs Department. Founding member of Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and Coalition of Labor Union Women. President John F. Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women member. Coordinating Council for Community Organizations. Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Chicago Freedom Movement. Operation Breadbasket. Illinois Commission on the Status of Women. Vice President, National Council of Negro Women. Delegate to the 1982 Jerusalem Women’s Conference. Advocate for women’s rights, healthcare, childcare and equal pay for working women.
Rev. Addie Wyatt
More About Rev. Addie:
- Marcia Walker-McWilliams, author of Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality – Sharing Our Stories VFA Conference 2017
- Addie at the VFA Unfinished Business event 2004
- The Addie Wyatt Center
- American Postal Workers Union
- Coalition of Labor Union Women remember Addie
- A tribute to Addie
- An interview with Alice Bernstein for the Alliance of Ethics & Art, Inc. Alliance of Ethics & Art, Inc.
- Black Past
- Working Women’s History Project – Interview with Reverend Addie
- History Makers
- Papers – Chicago Public Library
- Papers – University of Chicago
- Biography
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book, Feminists Who Changed America, pg 501