Katie Jordan:
2006 Recipient of the WWHP’s Mother Jones Award Winner
Posted July 25th, 2006
By Joan McGann Morris On Wednesday, March 22nd
Katie Jordan, President of CLUW, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Chicago Chapter, UNITE HERE, was honored by the Working Women’s History Project at their 2006 Gala held at Roosevelt University. Jordan was this year’s recipient of the WWHP’s Mother Jones Award for her lifelong fight for working women’s rights.
Rev. Addie L. Wyatt
Interview by Joan McGann Morris
Working Women’s History Project
“Racism and sexism were economic issues.”
It is December 14, 2002. I am very honored to be in the home of Rev. Addie L. Wyatt, who is the Co-Pastor Emeritus of the Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago, Illinois, along with her husband, Rev. Dr. Claude S. Wyatt, Jr. who has worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1958 to 1968 and has participated in major marches in Selma, Alabama, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. She spent thirty years as a leader and officer of the labor movement, retiring in 1984 as Vice President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. In 1975, Addie Wyatt appeared on the cover of Time magazine as one of its Women of the Year.
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