Reverend Addie Wyatt: faith and the fight for labor, gender, and racial equality - 114

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.