The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Reverend Addie Wyatt

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Reverend Addie Wyatt

6/1/2002

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.096

Labor leader and pastor Reverend Addie Wyatt (1924 - 2012 ) was the first female local union president of the United Packinghouse Food and Allied Workers. Wyatt also served as co-pastor of Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago, Illinois. Wyatt was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/1/2002, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 54m 31s

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Wyatt, Addie L., 1924-

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Addie L. Wyatt was born on March 8, 1924, in Brookhaven, Mississippi. The oldest girl of eight children, Wyatt (then Cameron) looked to her mother, Maggie Cameron, as an example. When Wyatt was only three, she gave her first recitation in church. This began a career in public speaking which reaches through religion to human rights, which represents a lifetime of work in which her actions speak even louder than her powerful words.Wyatt is one of the nation's foremost labor leaders. She was the fi...