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Conversations With Maida Springer A Personal History Of Labor, Race, and International Relations / Yevette Richards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Yevette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internationale Arbeiterbewegung.
- Schwarze Frau.
- Women labor union members.
- Women labor leaders.
- Pan-Africanism.
- International labor activities.
- African American women.
- HISTORY / General.
- Panafricanisme--Histoire.
- Panafricanisme.
- Travailleurs--Activites internationales--Histoire.
- Travailleurs.
- Noires americaines--Biographies.
- Noires americaines.
- Syndiquees--États-Unis--Biographies.
- Syndiquees.
- Dirigeantes syndicales--États-Unis--Biographies.
- Dirigeantes syndicales.
- Pan-Africanism--History.
- International labor activities--History.
- African American women--Biography.
- Women labor union members--United States--Biography.
- Women labor leaders--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Springer, Maida.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 355 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Born in Panama in 1910, Maida Springer grew up in Harlem. While still a young girl she learned firsthand of the bleak employment options available to African American females of her time. After one employer closed his garment shop and ran off with the workers' wages in the midst of the Depression, Springer joined Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.This proved to be the first step in a remarkable advancement through the ranks of labor leadership positions that were typically dominated by white men. Ultimately, Springer became one of the AFL-CIO's most important envoys to emerging African nations, earning her the nickname "Mama Maida" throughout that continent.In this brilliantly edited collection of interviews, Yevette Richards allows Springer to tell her story in her own words. The result is a rare glimpse into the private struggles and thoughts behind one of the twentieth century's most fascinating international labor leaders.
- Contents:
- A Panamanian immigrant in Harlem
- In the cauldron of Local 22 politics
- Educational outings, strikes, and struggles for equality
- The international affairs arena
- African policy conflicts within the International Confederation of free trade unions
- The All-African People's Conference and the International Labor Affiliation dispute
- The cost o the cold war on AFL-CIO programs and African unity
- Labor and civil rights
- The AFL-CIO and South Africa
- Reminiscences.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822970835
- 082297083X
- OCLC:
- 654592240
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