Addie L. Wyatt was a renowned civil rights activist and leader in the United States Labor movement. However, she is best known for being the first African American woman-elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Throughout her career, she constantly fought for human rights as a woman, a black person, and as […]
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