Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pehl, Matthew

Titel

BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES: Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality

Ist Teil von

• Church History, 2018, Vol.87 (2), p.610-613

Ort / Verlag

Santa Rosa: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In narrating and deeply contextualizing Wyatt's story, Walker-McWilliams demonstrates how Wyatt's life mirrors the trajectory of major themes in twentieth-century history, including the “great migration” of African Americans to the urban North, the rise of the industrial labor movement, and the northern civil rights movement. [...]in 1968, Wyatt became one of the few women to be ordained by the Northern Illinois Ministerial Assembly of the Church of God (150); she had become Reverend Addie Wyatt. [...]this theology, Walker-McWilliams concludes, was the product of the “intersectionality of [Wyatt's] life's experiences—her faith and family history in the Church of God; her personal experiences with poverty, racism, and sexism; and her movement activism and leadership” (155). Occasionally, Walker-McWilliams's strategy of contextualizing Wyatt's life leads into tangents or side stories that are well documented elsewhere—her description of the southern civil rights movement or societal disagreements over the Equal Rights Amendment, for instance, will not surprise most historians.