| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Yevette Richards. Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 366. $29.95.

Yevette Richards offers a sensitive and compassionate portrayal of the life of Maida Springer, from her early life in Panama, to her formative years as an immigrant in pan-African New York City, through her entry into the American labor movement and deep involvement in the tumultuous world of the Cold War, anticolonialism and African labor. Richards provides an admirably nuanced portrait of Springer's early life and her rise in the labor movement, illuminating the historical intersections of labor, gender, race, and immigration. Having established herself as an indefatigable organizer and advocate of women's rights in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, at the end of World War II, Springer became the first black woman to represent American labor abroad. . . .

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