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Addie L. Wyatt (née Cameron; March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) 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 .
The Walk to Freedom had two main purposes. The first and main purpose of the march "… was to speak out against segregation and the brutality that met civil rights activists in the South while at the same time addressing concerns of African Americans in the urban North: inequality in hiring practices, wages, education, and housing."
Romney's grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States to Mexico with their children owing to the federal government's prosecution of polygamy. [1] [2] His maternal grandfather was Helaman Pratt (1846–1909), who presided over the Mormon mission in Mexico City before moving to the Mexican state of Chihuahua and who was the son of original Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt (1807 ...
Many artworks were created in response to the 1967 events, a number of which were included in the 2017 exhibition "Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement", curated by Valerie J. Mercer for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Black Attack (1967) was painted by Detroit abstract artist Allie McGhee immediately following the event. The ...
Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
Clayola Brown, labor unionist, civil rights activist, and president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute [327] Bonnie Castillo, executive director of the National Nurses United [327] Kenneth W. Cooper, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers [327] Claude Cummings Jr., president of the Communications Workers of America [328]
Sociologist, Civil Rights Activist & Plaintiff in Hirabayashi v. United States [68] Dolores Huerta: Labor Leader & Co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association [68] Jan Karski † Resistance-Fighter during WWII & Diplomat [68] Toni Morrison: Novelist & Civil Rights Activist [68] Shimon Peres: 9th President of Israel [68] John Paul Stevens
Addie C. Strong Engle (1845–1926), American author and publisher; Addie Wagenknecht (born 1981), American artist and researcher; Addie Walsh (born 1953), American television soap opera writer; Addie Anderson Wilson (1876–1966), American composer, organist, and carillonist; Addie L. Wyatt (1924–2012), African labor leader and civil rights ...