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Conversations With Maida Springer

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Author : Yevette Richards
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2014-06-26

Conversations With Maida Springer written by Yevette Richards and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with History categories.

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.

Maida Springer

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Author : Yevette Richards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Maida Springer written by Yevette Richards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A biography of pan-Africanist and international labour leader, Maida Springer. It documents and analyzes the role played by Springer in international affairs, particularly in the formation of the AFL-CIO's African policy during the Cold War and African independence movements.

American Philanthropy At Home And Abroad

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Author : Ben Offiler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-11

American Philanthropy At Home And Abroad written by Ben Offiler and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-11 with History categories.

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.

Fight To Win

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Author : Kim Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2025-05-06

Fight To Win written by Kim Kelly and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

The revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly, now adapted for young readers. The history of American labor is full of incredible leaders, organizers, and workers, but not all of them have gotten the recognition they deserve. People like… Rosina Tucker, a Black woman who helped railroad workers organize the first Black-led labor union in America, Maria Moreno, an Indigenous and Mexican woman who fought for farmworkers in the fields of California, Ah Quon McElrath, a Chinese Hawaiian woman who united the laborers of the vast sugarcane plantations, Ben Fletcher, a Black dockworker who organized a strong, interracial union that ran the ports of Philadelphia, Judy Heumann, a disabled Jewish schoolteacher who became the mother of the Disability Rights Movement…and many more. With blood, sweat, and tears, they fought to win the rights we hold so dear today. Their voices reveal the true history of American labor.

Blue Collar Empire

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Author : Jeff Schuhrke
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2024-09-24

Blue Collar Empire written by Jeff Schuhrke and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-24 with History categories.

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the world. Unions have the power not only to secure pay raises and employee benefits but to bring economies to a screeching halt and overthrow governments. Recognizing this, in the late twentieth century, the US government sought to control labor movements abroad as part of the Cold War contest for worldwide supremacy. In this work, Washington found an enthusiastic partner in the AFL-CIO's anticommunist officials, who, in a shocking betrayal, for decades expended their energies to block revolutionary ideologies and militant class consciousness from taking hold in the workers' movements of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Maida Springer

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Author : Yevette Richards
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2000-10-15

Maida Springer written by Yevette Richards and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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.

Journal Of Women S History

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Journal Of Women S History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Women categories.

True To A Type

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Author : Robert Cleland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887

True To A Type written by Robert Cleland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with categories.

My Passionate Feeling About Africa

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Author : Yevette Richards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

My Passionate Feeling About Africa written by Yevette Richards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with African American labor leaders categories.

The Black Women Oral History Project

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Author : Ruth Edmonds Hill
language : en
Publisher: Meckler Books
Release Date : 1991

The Black Women Oral History Project written by Ruth Edmonds Hill and has been published by Meckler Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Oral memoirs of a cross section of American women of African descent, born within approximately 15 years before and after the turn of the century.