We featured Ben Fletcher of the IWW last week, but it’s not possible to follow up with Black female members of the organization since no women were allowed to join.
The IWW could have used her vision and savvy in the same way the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union did, where she became the first African American woman elected as international vice president of a major union.
Wyatt was 16 when she married Renaldo Wyatt, a postal finance clerk. She took on the responsibility of raising several of her younger siblings after her mother died and her father was incapacitated. One of the first jobs she applied for was as a typist for Armour and Company in 1941. She learned of the company’s duplicity when the promised job as typist turned out to be packing cans of Army rations.
By 1955, Wyatt was working full-time on the staff of the UPWA and representing workers across five states. In her leadership role, she pushed hard for equal pay and successfully made a sizable salary breakthrough for Black, Latino, and white workers. All of this was done before the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
Eleanor Roosevelt recognized Wyatt’s prominence in the union and appointed her to a position on the Labor Legislation Committee of the U.S. Commission on the Status of Women.
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