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Richards, Yevette. "‘My Passionate Feeling about Africa’: Maida Springer-Kemp and the American Labor Movement," American Studies Program, Yale University, May 1994.
From her start with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in the 1930s Maida Springer-Kemp became the first Black female international representative for the American labor movement in 1945. Along with A. Philip Randolph she was a pioneer in opening up the American labor movement’s involvement in support of African independence struggles and trade union development. As a social history, oral history, and biography, this work situates Springer-Kemp’s labor activism within the political context of the Cold War and the pan-African movement. The representation of her life experiences and work demonstrates the conflictual and complex nature of Black struggles for equality and justice.
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