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Author : Maida Springer Kemp
Release : 1983
Genre : Historians
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Book Synopsis Maida Springer Kemp on Dr. Caroline F. Ware by : Maida Springer Kemp
Download or read book Maida Springer Kemp on Dr. Caroline F. Ware written by Maida Springer Kemp. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maida Springer Kemp
Release : 1981*
Genre : Historians
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Book Synopsis Maida Springer Kemp on Dr. Caroline F. Ware by : Maida Springer Kemp
Download or read book Maida Springer Kemp on Dr. Caroline F. Ware written by Maida Springer Kemp. This book was released on 1981*. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maida Springer Kemp
Release : 1978
Genre : African American women
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Book Synopsis Oral History Interview with Maida Springer Kemp by : Maida Springer Kemp
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Maida Springer Kemp written by Maida Springer Kemp. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maida Springer Kemp on Dr. Caroline F. Ware: A supplement to The Black Women Oral History Project. (11 leaves).
Author : Yevette Richards
Release : 2000-10-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 631/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Maida Springer by : Yevette Richards
Download or read book Maida Springer written by Yevette Richards. This book was released on 2000-10-15. 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 : Susan Ware
Release : 1999-07-13
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Forgotten Heroes by : Susan Ware
Download or read book Forgotten Heroes written by Susan Ware. This book was released on 1999-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pages of the past are full of characters who remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of men and women, whether famous or humble. Where would America be without George Washington, or Daniel Boone, or Sojourner Truth, or Babe Ruth? Where would we be without so many characters who are less well remembered today? Historians and biographers regularly come across stories of little-known or forgotten heroes, and this book provides a chance to rescue some of the best of them. In Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five of the country's leading historians recount their favorite stories of underappreciated Americans. From Stephen Jay Gould on deaf baseball player Dummy Hoy; to William Leuchtenburg on the truth behind the legendary Johnny Appleseed; to Christine Stansell on Margaret Anderson, who published James Joyce's Ulysses; these portraits can be read equally for delight, instruction, and inspiration Taken together, however, the whole is much more than the sum of its parts. Every culture needs heroes who lead by example and uplift us all in the process. Too often lately, historians have been more intent on picking apart the reputations of previously revered Americans. At times it has seemed as if the academy were on the attack against much of its own culture, denying its past greatness while making heroes only of its dissidents and doubters. Yet as this collection vividly demonstrates, heroes come in many shapes and sizes, and we all gain when we remember and celebrate them. Forgotten Heroes includes nearly as many women as men, and nearly as many people from before 1900 as after. It expands the traditional definition of hero to encompass not only military figures and politicians who took risks for great causes, but also educators, religious leaders, reformers, labor leaders, publishers, athletes, and even a man who started a record company. Many of them were heroes of conscience -- men and women who insisted on doing the right thing, no matter how unpopular or risky, commanding respect even from those who disagreed. Some were famous in their day and have since been forgotten, or remembered only in caricature. Others were little-known even when alive -- yet they all deserve to be remembered today, especially at the gifted hands of the authors of this book.
