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From Harlem, Gibson became a champion of the very segregated sport of tennis. She was the first Black tennis player to compete and win at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals (Arthur Ashe was the first Black man to win at Wimbledon 8 years later, in 1975).

Date: 1934 Negative Number 111081

Learn about racial tensions in Detroit, the fight to desegregate the SS Columbia, and how this episode in history paves the way for Thurgood Marshall’s victory in Brown vs. Board of Education: https://shiphistory.org/2020/06/19/desegregating-the-ss-columbia/ Image: The SS Columbia logbook for the day Ms. Sarah Elizabeth Ray was asked to leave the boat because of the color of her skin, SSHSA Archives. #ArchivesBlackEducation #BlackHistoryMonth #blackshiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7BxpDHHOD/?igshid=1gg0nagn85eir

To celebrate #ArchivesBlackEducation we wanted to highlight the work of organizer, educator, and international labor advocate Maida Springer Kemp of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Kemp started working as a finisher with Local 22 of the Dressmakers’ Union in NYC and moved up in the union becoming executive board member, chairman of the education committee and shop representative. In 1942, Kemp was appointed as education director of Local 132, the Plastic Button and Novelty Workers’ Union focusing on educating new membership of mostly refugee, recently released prisoners, women and minority union members. Kemp became the first black woman to represent American labor abroad when the AFL sent her to England in 1945 and the first black business agent of Local 22 in 1947. Through her international work, she developed training programs for girls, designed leadership workshops for trade unionists, studied workers’ education in Sweden and Denmark, and secured funds for labor centers including the Solidarity House in Nairobi. Kemp received many awards and honors during her lifetime and was a member of numerous organizations including the NAACP, National Organization of Women (NOW), the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), the National Council of Negro Women, and the Urban League. Kemp speaking during a Dress Strike, 1958. Kemp studying production methods at the Cooperative Wholesale Society’s clothing factory in Bristol, England, undated. Kemp meeting with Japanese Trade Unionists, undated. Kemp meeting at the African American Labor Center highlighting their work with trade unions in thirty-five African countries. Manager William Ross of the Philadelphia Dress Joint Board hands Kemp a check for $10,000 to help finance a training school for garment workers. [#6199005p #5780P #5780102P #5780PN45 #ILGWU #UniteHere Photographs #KheelCenter, #ILR, #Cornell #ArchivesHashtagParty] #blackhistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CK6l9RQJwIx/?igshid=1j202lw6wj1ab

Learn about the difference between primary and secondary sources using the case study of the first black owned and operated steamship company the Black Star Line. This lesson, for grades 6-12 and college level, can be used in the classroom or at home for remote learning. Check it out here: https://shiphistory.org/2020/01/20/the-black-star-line/ or click the link in our bio for lessons. This lesson was written in conjunction with North Central Texas College History Professor Brittany Hancock based on her article, “Marcus Garvey’s The Black Star Line: Hopes, Dreams, and The S.S. Yarmouth,” which appeared in the Journal of Caribbean History 52, vol. 1. Images: The S.S. Yarmouth, renamed Frederick Douglass, was the Black Star Line’s first ship. From the R. Loren Graham Collection, SSHSA Archives. Scrapbook entry, dated May 12, 1920, Lochhead Collection, SSHSA Archives. #ArchivesBlackEducation #BlackHistoryMonth #blackhistory #blackshiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLFc9NNHRMW/?igshid=edysq57cysxp

The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on the Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia. When the line went out of business in 1962 after 122 years of existence, it was the last surviving overnight steamship passenger service in the United States. In addition to regularly calling on Baltimore and Norfolk, the Baltimore Steam Packet Company at various times provided freight, passenger and vehicle transport to Washington, D.C., Old Point Comfort, and Richmond, Virginia. Images: Longshoremen working for the Old Bay Line, c. 1947, SSHSA Archives. #BlackHistoryMonth #ArchivesBlackEducation #blackshiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMvG3KnDeq/?igshid=1tpo218saait9