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Download or read book Faith in the Struggle: Rev. Addie Wyatt and the Fight for Labor, Civil Rights and Women's Rights written by Marcia Ann Walker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a biography of Rev. Addie Wyatt, an ordained minister in the Church of God (Anderson, IN), an outspoken feminist, civil rights activist and one of the most influential African American female labor leaders in American history. It is also a social history of twentieth century social movements, the activists and leaders who participated in them, and their ideologies. While historians have largely studied the labor movement, civil rights movement, women's movement, and religious movements in isolation from one another, Addie Wyatt's ability to traverse the boundaries of these movements shows that such an approach is flawed because it belies the rich contributions of a historical figure like Wyatt, whose activism, leadership and ideological contributions spanned movement divides and helped to broaden the scope of such movements by pushing for greater racial, gender and class diversity within them.