Background
Wyatt, Addie L. was born on March 8, 1924 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States.
Wyatt, Addie L. was born on March 8, 1924 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States.
Student public and private schools, Chicago. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Anderson College, Indiana, 1976. Doctor of Humanities (honorary), Columbia College.
Doctor of Humanities (honorary), Chicago, 1978.
With meat packing industry, 1941-1954. International representative United Packinghouse Workers Union (now merged with Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union), 1954-1968, Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union (now United Food and Commercial Workers International), Chicago, 1968-1974, director women's affairs department, 1974-1978, director human rights department, since 1978, international vice president, since 1976. Executive vice president Coalition Labor Union Women.
Adviser, instructor labor Roosevelt University, Chicago. Member labor advisory committee Chicago Urban League. Labor advisory Martin Luther King, Junior, Ralph Abernathy, 1957-1968, Jesse Jackson.
Member National Commission on Working Women, Full Employment Action Council. Member national commission observance International Women's Year, 1977. Member National Advisory Committee for Women, 1978.
Executive vice president National Council Negro Women. At-large member Democratic National Committee. Member National Conference of Christians and Jews, Midwest Women's Center, Alliance to Save Energy, Jewish Labor Program Committee, Coalition Black Trade Unionists, National Association Negro Women, Alliance of Ministers Wives.
Daughter of Ambrose and Maggie (Nolan) Cameron. M. Claude S. Wyatt, Junior, 1940. Children: Renaldo, Claude S.