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)

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Overview

Elizabeth Wyckoff born New York June 16, 1915 (d. 1994). Freedom Rider, Poet, Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke rode on Trailways bus Montgomery to Jackson MS where she was arrested 1961; Albany civil rights campaign 1962.

Quotations

We stagger off on our road. We are walking in sleep.
We are seeking the end of our years, the end of our terrible days.
("The Exiles," The Lantern, Bryn Mawr College, p. 6, 1935; photo harlemcore.com)