| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader. By Yevette Richards. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. xviii, 366 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8229-4139-2.)

Yevette Richards's study, Maida Springer, provides a comprehensive look at Springer's relationships with African trade union leaders in postwar anticolonial struggles. Springer was deeply involved in the emerging African labor movements in various capacities. As representative of the International Affairs Department (1960–1966) of the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), she helped carry out U.S. labor's Cold War policies internationally. Yet her interests in African affairs and black rights were personal as well as political. Richards explores her frustrations and conflicts as a black, female labor activist functioning in the male-dominated world of organized labor. 1

Maida Springer constantly juggled competing movements and ideologies as she sought to integrate antiracist, feminist, and anticolonial concerns into her international work. She was no ordinary grass-roots leader. Brought up in Harlem and active in the black community of the 1920s, Springer embraced the nationalism of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association early on and later the left radicalism of the Communists. In the sectarian battles that raged within the Communist party, she sided with Jay Lovestone and collaborated with him in his lifelong fight against communism. The Cold War would provide the scaffolding for Springer's advancement within the U.S. labor movement. . . .

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