THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
“Mama” Maida Springer Kemp
1910 – 2005
From a Union Foot Soldier to a Pioneering International Labor Advocate
Labor organizer. AFL–CIO, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), National Council of Negro Women, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, African-American Free Labor Institute, Asian-American Free Labor Institute, National Organization for Women, and Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Maida Springer Kemp
More About Maida:
- Black Women Oral History Project Interviews – Maida Kemp 1977
- Audio interview from Passages – Presbyterian Media Mission
- AFL-CIO profiles Maida Springer Kemp
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library Oral History
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
- Papers of Maida Springer Kemp, 1942-1981
- Maida Springer Kemp papers, 1934-1998 | Amistad Research Center
- Books on Maida Kemp by Yevette Richards