Addie L. Wyatt

Overview

Addie L. Wyatt (née Cameron) born Brookhaven, MS March 8, 1924. Labor leader and civil rights advocate. Adviser to Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); helped found Operation Breadbasket, 1962. Worked with Martin Luther King, Jr; arrested for role in protests, Selma, 1965. Arrested for Apartheid protest, 1983. Shared Time magazine Person of the Year Award with Barbara Jordan, 1975.

Quotations

“If the world was going to be better, we had to make it so.” (Her mother's motto, Working Women's History Project, Dec. 14, 2002; photo AFGE)