Review of Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (Marcia Walker-McWilliams, 2016) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Review of Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (Marcia Walker-McWilliams, 2016) write by Carol F. Cini. This book was released on 2017. Review of Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (Marcia Walker-McWilliams, 2016) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reverend Addie Wyatt
Reverend Addie Wyatt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reverend Addie Wyatt write by Marcia Walker-McWilliams. This book was released on 2016-09-30. Reverend Addie Wyatt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of change in twentieth century America. The first female president of a local chapter of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Wyatt worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt and appeared as one of Time magazine's Women of the Year in 1975. Marcia Walker-McWilliams tells the incredible story of Addie Wyatt and her times. What began for Wyatt as a journey to overcome poverty became a lifetime commitment to social justice and the collective struggle against economic, racial, and gender inequalities. Walker-McWilliams illuminates how Wyatt's own experiences with hardship and many forms of discrimination drove her work as an activist and leader. A parallel journey led her to develop an abiding spiritual faith, one that denied defeatism by refusing to accept such circumstances as immutable social forces.
Bloomer Girls
Bloomer Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bloomer Girls write by Debra A Shattuck. This book was released on 2017-01-18. Bloomer Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and even found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment, organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity. Vivid and eye-opening, Bloomer Girls is a first-of-its-kind portrait of America, its women, and its game.
Rethinking the American Labor Movement
Rethinking the American Labor Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking the American Labor Movement write by Elizabeth Faue. This book was released on 2017-04-28. Rethinking the American Labor Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the "labor movement." While the efforts of the American labor force towards greater wealth parity have been rife with contention, the struggle has embraced a broad vision of a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth and a desire for workers to have greater control over their own lives. In this succinct and authoritative volume, Elizabeth Faue reconsiders the varied strains of the labor movement, situating them within the context of rapidly transforming twentieth-century American society to show how these efforts have formed a political and social movement that has shaped the trajectory of American life. Rethinking the American Labor Movement is indispensable reading for scholars and students interested in American labor in the twentieth century and in the interplay between labor, wealth, and power.
Faith in the Struggle: Rev. Addie Wyatt and the Fight for Labor, Civil Rights and Women's Rights
Faith in the Struggle: Rev. Addie Wyatt and the Fight for Labor, Civil Rights and Women's Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faith in the Struggle: Rev. Addie Wyatt and the Fight for Labor, Civil Rights and Women's Rights write by Marcia Ann Walker. This book was released on 2012. Faith in the Struggle: Rev. Addie Wyatt and the Fight for Labor, Civil Rights and Women's Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
