Maida Springer

Author : Yevette Richards
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822972638

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Maida Springer by Yevette Richards Pdf

Maida Springer was an active participant in shaping a history that involved powerful movements for social, political and economic equality and justice for workers women, and African Americans. Maida Springer is the first full-length biography to document and analyze the central role played by Springer in international affairs, particularly in the formation of AFL-CIO's African policy during the Cold War and African independence movements. Richards explores the ways in which pan-Africanism, racism, sexism and anti-Communism affected Springer's political development, her labor activism, and her relationship with labor leaders in the AFL-CIO, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), and in African unions. Springer's life experiences and work reveal the complex nature of black struggles for equality and justice. A strong supporter of both the AFL-CIO and the ICFTU, Springer nonetheless recognized that both organizations were fraught with racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism. She also understood that charges of Communism were often used as a way to thwart African American demands for social justice. As an African-American, she found herself in the unenviable position of promoting to Africans the ideals of American democracy from which she was excluded from fully enjoying. Richards's biography of Maida Springer uniquely connects pan-Africanism, national and international labor relations, the Cold War, and African American, labor, women's, and civil rights histories. In addition to documenting Springer's role in international labor relations, the biography provides a larger view of a whole range of political leaders and social movements. Maida Springer is a stirring biography that spans the fields of women studies, African American studies, and labor history.

Author : Yevette Richards
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 082297083X

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Conversations with Maida Springer by Yevette Richards Pdf

"From the Great Depression to World War II, from the early Civil Rights Movement to the Cold War and the fall of apartheid, Springer was at the forefront of some of the most dramatic social and political changes of the twentieth century. In Conversations with Maida Springer, this champion for workers' rights shares the story of her personal and professional life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Maida Springer Kemp,Elizabeth Balanoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : African American women
ISBN : OCLC:6553224

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Oral History Interview with Maida Springer Kemp by Maida Springer Kemp,Elizabeth Balanoff Pdf

Maida Springer Kemp on Dr. Caroline F. Ware: A supplement to The Black Women Oral History Project. (11 leaves).

Author : Ben Offiler,Rachel Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350151963

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American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad by Ben Offiler,Rachel Williams Pdf

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad explores the different ways in which charities, voluntary associations, religious organisations, philanthropic foundations and other non-state actors have engaged with traditions of giving. Using examples from the late eighteenth century to the Cold War, the collection addresses a number of major themes in the history of philanthropy in the United States. These examples include the role of religion, the significance of cultural networks, and the interplay between civil diplomacy and international development, as well as individual case studies that challenge the very notion of philanthropy as a social good. Led by Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams, the authors demonstrate the benefits of embracing a broad definition of philanthropy, examining how American concepts including benevolence and charity have been used and interpreted by different groups and individuals in an effort to shape – and at least nominally to improve – people's lives both within and beyond the United States.

Author : P. Schechter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137012845

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Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary by P. Schechter Pdf

This study explores two categories—empire and citizenship—that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. It puts an individual, intellectual, and female face on transnational phenomena.

Author : G. Horne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230101043

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Mau Mau in Harlem? by G. Horne Pdf

Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya.

Author : Brigid O'Farrell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813522692

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Rocking the Boat by Brigid O'Farrell Pdf

Rocking the Boat is a celebration of strong, committed women who helped to build the American labor movement. Through the stories of eleven women from a wide range of backgrounds, we experience the turmoil, hardships, and accomplishments of thousands of other union women activists through the period spanning the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the McCarthy era, the civil rights movement, and the women's movement. These women tell powerful stories that highlight and detail women's many roles as workers, trade unionists, and family members. They all faced difficulties in their personal lives, overcame challenges in their unions, and individually and collectively helped improve women's everyday working lives. Maida Springer-Kemp came from New York City's Harlem, Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, to represent the AFL-CIO in Africa. In Chicago, Alice Peurala fought for her job in the steel mill and her place in the steel workers' union. Jessie De La Cruz organized farm workers in California. Esther Peterson, organizer, educator, and lobbyist, became an advisor to four U.S. presidents. In chapters based on oral history interviews, these women and others provide new perspectives and practical advice for today's working women. They share an idealistic and practical commitment to the labor movement. As Dorothy Haener of the United Auto Workers and a founding member of the National Organization of Women said, "You have to take a look at how to rock the boat. You don't want to spill yourself out if you can avoid it, but sometimes you have to rock the boat." From these women we, too, learn how to rock the boat.

Author : Dorothy Sue Cobble
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691156873

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For the Many by Dorothy Sue Cobble Pdf

Prologue: From Equal Rights to Democratic Equality -- Part I Citizens of the World -- Sitting at the Common Table -- A Higher 'Standard of Life' for the World -- Part II Dreams Deferred -- A 'Parliament of Working Women' -- Social Justice Under Siege -- Pan-Internationalisms -- Part III New Deals -- Social Democracy, American-Style -- Women's New Deal for the World -- Part IV Universal Declarations -- Wartime Journeys -- Intertwined Freedoms -- Cold War Advances -- Part V Redreamings -- The Pivotal Sixties -- Sisters and Resisters -- Epilogue: Of the Many, By the Many, For the Many -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Author : Robert Anthony Waters Jr.,Geert Van Goethem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137360229

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American Labor's Global Ambassadors by Robert Anthony Waters Jr.,Geert Van Goethem Pdf

After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions from leading historians to explore its successes, challenges, and inevitable compromises as it pursued these initiatives during the Cold War.

Author : Rosalind Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190053819

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Jane Crow by Rosalind Rosenberg Pdf

Euro-African-American activist Pauli Murray was a feminist lawyer, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. Born in 1910 and identified as female, she believed from childhood she was male. Before there was a social movement to support transgender identity, she devised attacks on all arbitrary distinctions, greatly expanding the idea of equality in the process.

Author : Jenny Carson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252052804

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A Matter of Moral Justice by Jenny Carson Pdf

A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York’s power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city’s laundry workers. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union politics across the country in the twentieth century. Meticulous and engaging, A Matter of Moral Justice examines the role of African American and radical women activists and their collisions with labor organizing and union politics.

Author : Susan Williams
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541768284

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White Malice by Susan Williams Pdf

A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won Ghana’s independence, his determined call for Pan-Africanism was heeded by young, idealistic leaders across the continent and by African Americans seeking civil rights at home. Yet, a moment that signified a new era of African freedom simultaneously marked a new era of foreign intervention and control. In White Malice, Susan Williams unearths the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa’s new generation of nationalist leaders. This dramatically upends the conventional belief that the African nations failed to establish effective, democratic states on their own accord. As the old European powers moved out, the US moved in. Drawing on original research, recently declassified documents, and told through an engaging narrative, Williams introduces readers to idealistic African leaders and to the secret agents, ambassadors, and even presidents who deliberately worked against them, forever altering the future of a continent.

Author : Winston James
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788737005

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Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia by Winston James Pdf

A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States. Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan—the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have made a profound impact on the development of radical politics in the United States is extensive. In this magisterial and lavishly illustrated work, Winston James focuses on the twentieth century’s first waves of immigrants from the Caribbean and their contribution to political dissidence in America. Examining the way in which the characteristics of the societies they left shaped their perceptions of the land to which they traveled, Winston James draws sharp differences between Hispanic and English-speaking arrivals. He explores the interconnections between the Cuban independence struggle, Puerto Rican nationalism, Afro-American feminism, and black communism in the first turbulent decades of the twentieth century. He also provides fascinating insights into the impact of Puerto Rican radicalism in New York City and recounts the remarkable story of Afro-Cuban radicalism in Florida.

Author : Ruth Edmonds Hill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 5168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110973914

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The Black Women Oral History Project. Cplt. by Ruth Edmonds Hill Pdf

Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135883621

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Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History by Eric Arnesen Pdf

A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title The Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History provides sweeping coverage of US labor history. Containing over 650 entries, the Encyclopedia encompasses labor history from the colonial era to the present. Articles focus on states, regions, periods, economic sectors and occupations, race-relations, ethnicity, and religion, concepts and developments in labor economics, environmentalism, globalization, legal history, trade unions, strikes, organizations, individuals, management relations, and government agencies and commissions. Articles cover such issues as immigration and migratory labor, women and labor, labor in every war effort, slavery and the slave-trade, union-resistance by corporations such as Wal-Mart, and the history of cronyism and corruption, and the mafia within elements of labor history. Labor history is also considered in its representation in film, music, literature, and education. Important articles cover the perception of working-class culture, such as the surge in sympathy for the working class following September 11, 2001. Written as an objective social history, the Encyclopedia encapsulates the rise and decline, and continuous change of US labor history into the twenty-first century.