Addie L. Wyatt
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican labor leader (1924-2012)
United StatesLived 1924 to 2012 · aged 88Addie L. Wyatt was a leader in the United States Labor movement and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union.
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Susan J. FowlerAlso won Time Person of the Year
Jeanne M. HolmAlso won Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year
Leonard WoodcockAlso won Labor Hall of Honor
William Bauchop WilsonAlso won Labor Hall of Honor
Patrícia Campos MelloAlso won Time Person of the Year
Margaret McNamaraAlso won Ladies' Home Journal Women of the YearAbout this person
Addie L. Wyatt was a leader in the United States Labor movement and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Wyatt began her career in the union in the early 1950s and advanced in leadership. In 1975, with the politician Barbara Jordan, she was the first African-American woman named by Time magazine as Person of the Year.
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