Workers: Addie L. Wyatt
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Addie L. Wyatt (1924-2012) was a civil rights activist, women’s rights activist, and one of the country’s foremost labor union leaders. As vice president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union — the first Black woman to be elected to the position — she pushed for intersectionality in the labor movement.
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