Reminiscences of Maida Springer Kemp : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Trade unionist

Scope and Contents

Childhood and family in Panama; move to New York, NY; Garvey movement; Black boarding school in New Jersey; trade union career: International Ladies' Garment Workers Union organizer, educational and business committeewoman, 1930-1950, New York Women's Trade Union League, labor travels to England, Africa, Sweden, 1950-1970s; impressions of Tom Mboya, A. Philip Randolph, Lester Granger, Pauline Newman, Rose Schneiderman, Charlotte Adelman, Frank Crossthwait, Fania Cohn, others in labor movement

Subjects

• African Americans--History.
• African American women--Interviews.
• Balanoff, Elizabeth, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Kemp, Maida Springer.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Oral histories (literary works)

Access Conditions

Copyright by narrator and Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College