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- catalog abstract "Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, printed material, and photographs documenting some of Kemp's trade union activity in the United States and her extensive work on behalf of the emerging trade union movement in Africa. The emphasis is on Kemp's work in Africa--in particular the Trade Union Scholarship Program for Africa, an AFL-CIO effort, and her efforts to provide assistance to union leaders, from the mid 1950s through 1980--especially in Ghana, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nysasaland.".
- catalog contributor b757200.
- catalog coverage "Africa Social conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Ghana Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Indonesia Social conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Kenya Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Liberia Social conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Malawi Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Nigeria Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Tanzania Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Uganda Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Zambia Politics and government.".
- catalog date "1942".
- catalog description "A member of the executive board and the education committee of Local 22, Kemp was education director of Local 132 of the Plastic Button and Novelty Workers' Union, 1942-1945, and ran for State Assembly of New York County on the American Labor Party ticket in 1942. She was appointed to a War Price and Rationing Board of the Office of Price Administration (1944), and in 1945 became the first Black woman to represent the AFL abroad, serving as its delegate on a trip sponsored by the Office of War Information to observe wartime conditions for workers in Great Britain.".
- catalog description "Beginning in 1951 Kemp became increasingly active, through the AFL, in labor unions in several African countries that were simultaneously working for national independence. In 1955 she was one of five non-African observers (and the only woman) at the first International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) conference, held in Accra, Gold Coast (later Ghana). In 1964 Kemp served as advisor to and member of the workers' delegation from the United States to the 48th Session of the International Labor Organization conference in Geneva. She returned, in 1966, to the ILGWU as a general organizer, and later worked with the A. Philip Randolph Institute.".
- catalog description "Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, printed material, and photographs documenting some of Kemp's trade union activity in the United States and her extensive work on behalf of the emerging trade union movement in Africa. The emphasis is on Kemp's work in Africa--in particular the Trade Union Scholarship Program for Africa, an AFL-CIO effort, and her efforts to provide assistance to union leaders, from the mid 1950s through 1980--especially in Ghana, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nysasaland.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00289".
- catalog description "In the late 1920s Kemp married Owen Springer; they had one son, Eric. In 1965 she married James Kemp. She has two grandchildren.".
- catalog description "Kemp was born in Panama, Central America, in 1910 and moved to New York City with her mother, Diane Stewart, in 1917. In 1932 Kemp went to work as a pinker and hand finisher in a garment factory in New York. She joined Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in 1933; this was the beginning of her involvement in the American trade union movement, which eventually included participation in the workers' education movement, African trade union movements, labor education worldwide (particularly for women), and the women's movement.".
- catalog description "Maida Springer Kemp Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog description "There is related material: Maida Springer Kemp Oral History (OH-31) at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog extent ".75 linear ft.".
- catalog issued "1942".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Africa Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog spatial "Developing countries.".
- catalog spatial "Ghana Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Ghana.".
- catalog spatial "Indonesia Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Indonesia.".
- catalog spatial "Kenya Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Kenya.".
- catalog spatial "Liberia Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Liberia.".
- catalog spatial "Malawi Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Malawi.".
- catalog spatial "Nigeria Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Nigeria.".
- catalog spatial "South Africa.".
- catalog spatial "Tanzania Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Tanzania.".
- catalog spatial "Turkey.".
- catalog spatial "Uganda Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Uganda.".
- catalog spatial "Zambia Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Zambia.".
- catalog subject "AFL-CIO.".
- catalog subject "African American women.".
- catalog subject "All-African People's Conference.".
- catalog subject "American Federation of Labor.".
- catalog subject "American Society of African Culture.".
- catalog subject "Asian-American Free Labor Institute.".
- catalog subject "Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981.".
- catalog subject "Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955.".
- catalog subject "Blacks Employment South Africa.".
- catalog subject "Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Train, Chair Car, Coach Porters and Attendants.".
- catalog subject "Dubinsky, David, 1892-1982.".
- catalog subject "Ferebee, Dorothy Boulding, -1980.".
- catalog subject "Ghana Trades Union Congress.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University. Trade Union Program.".
- catalog subject "International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.".
- catalog subject "International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 22.".
- catalog subject "International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.".
- catalog subject "International Women's Year, 1975.".
- catalog subject "International cooperation.".
- catalog subject "International labor activities.".
- catalog subject "Jacobs, Sophia Yarnall.".
- catalog subject "Kaunda, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1924-".
- catalog subject "Kemp, Maida Springer.".
- catalog subject "Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Africa.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Ghana.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Indonesia.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Kenya.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Liberia.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Malawi.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Nigeria.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Political activity.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Tanzania.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Turkey.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Uganda.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Zambia.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions and communism Africa.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions.".
- catalog subject "Mboya, Tom, 1930-1969.".
- catalog subject "McCallister, Frank.".
- catalog subject "Meany, George, 1894-1980.".
- catalog subject "Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.".
- catalog subject "National Council of Negro Women.".
- catalog subject "National Negro Labor Council (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972.".
- catalog subject "Nyerere, Julius K. (Julius Kambarage), 1922-1999.".
- catalog subject "Ochwada, Arthur A.".
- catalog subject "Pan African Conference on the Role of Trade Union Women (1977 : Nairobi)".
- catalog subject "Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979.".
- catalog subject "Ruskin College (University of Oxford)".
- catalog subject "Schnitzler, Frank.".
- catalog subject "Sears, Mason, 1899-".