Maida Springer Kemp

Maida Springer Kemp, who lived from 1910 to 2005, was a union leader and organizer, and an international labor activist who built relationships and alliances between organized labor and Black communities. She served as a business agent and Board member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, and as a member of the AFL-CIO International Affairs Department. She was the first Black woman to represent the US labor movement overseas. Photographer unknown, image 5780pb032f19aa, ca. 1950.