"Walker-McWilliam's book is very well researched, clearly written, and extremely well organized. . . . Reverend Addie Wyatt is an important piece of scholarship that will appeal to both scholars and nonscholars interested in social movements in history."
The Journal of Southern History "Walker-McWilliams masterfully weaves the influences of the Great Migration from Mississippi to segregated Chicago, the vibrant religious ... Read moreculture of the Church of God, Chicago's meatpacking industry and labor movements, the emergence of the Civil Rights and women's movements, and her enduring marriage to Rev. Claude Wyatt to create a fascinating portrait of a historical activist icon."
Chicago Review of Books "[A] compelling, well-written, definitive biography. . . . This biography of Addie Wyatt is a valuable treatment of an activist who should be better known and whose life provides an important window into the organized labor, feminist, and civil rights movements."
Indiana Magazine of History "This highly readable biography by historian Marcia Walker-McWilliams gives this influential figure the attention she deserves."
Newcity     "Marcia Walker-McWilliams' Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality engages readers in an enlightening examination of Addie Wyatt's professional trials and personal tribulations. . . . Another must read in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in American History series."
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society   "Richly detailed and well-researched. . . . Wyatt's work speaks directly to the ways the social movements of which she was a part unquestionably advanced America's still unfinished struggles for democracy."
Labour/Le Travail   "Walker-McWilliams skillfully captures through a wide array of primary and secondary sources another view of a working-class black women activist in the life and times of Reverent Addie Wyatt as well as often underresearched aspects of labor history, black women's history, and civil rights activism."
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