Conversations With Maida Springer

Author : Yevette Richards
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822970835
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Maida Springer written by Yevette Richards and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2004-08-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Yevette Richards
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822972631
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maida Springer written by Yevette Richards and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : P. Schechter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137012846
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary written by P. Schechter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dorothy Sue Cobble
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156875
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Many written by Dorothy Sue Cobble and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Yevette Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "My Passionate Feeling about Africa" written by Yevette Richards and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jenny Carson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052803
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Moral Justice written by Jenny Carson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1541768280
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Malice written by Susan Williams and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Anthony Waters Jr.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137360224
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Labor's Global Ambassadors written by Robert Anthony Waters Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : G. Horne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101046
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mau Mau in Harlem? written by G. Horne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Spencer Mawby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350051802
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Empire in Uganda written by Spencer Mawby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions. In this new analysis of the end of empire in Uganda, Spencer Mawby challenges these preconceptions by explaining the many difficulties which arose when the British attempted to impose western institutional models on Ugandan society. Ranging from international institutions, including the Commonwealth, to state organisations, like the parliament and army, and to civic institutions such as trade unions, the press and the Anglican church, Mawby uncovers a wealth of new material about the way in which the British sought to consolidate their influence in the years prior to independence. The book also investigates how Ugandans responded to institutional reform and innovation both before and after independence, and in doing so sheds new light on the emergence of the notorious military dictatorship of Idi Amin. By unpicking historical orthodoxies about 20th-century imperial history, this institutional history of the end of empire and the early years of independence offers an opportunity to think afresh about the nature of the colonial impact on Africa and the development of authoritarian rule on the continent.