Mae Massie Eberhardt

Mae Massie Eberhardt
Mae Massie Eberhardt
Born	Mae Graves; August 31, 1915; Richmond, Virginia
Occupation	Union Activist ; Executive Vice-President of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council

Mae Massie Eberhardt (born 1915) is a union activist in New Jersey in the twentieth century.[1][2]

Biography

Mae Eberhardt was born to parents Randolph and Ida Kenny Graves in Virginia but moved to New Jersey after her first marriage.[1] After the end of her first marriage, she began to work at Orange and Domestic Laundry, which led to her involvement in Local 284, AFL, and union activism.[1] Eberhardt went on to work as on electronics for Kuthe Laboratories in Newark, New Jersey, where she was actively involved with International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers(CIO).[1] In 1963, she went to work for IUE as civil rights director for District 3, which covers both New Jersey and New York.[1][2][3] Eberhardt became the first Black woman ever elected as an officer in a state labor organization when she was elected executive vice-president of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council.[1][2]

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References

"Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981: Biographies". Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America research Guides. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
Sheridan, Clare M. (1992). Labor History Archives in the United States: A Guide for Researching and Teaching. Wayne State University Press. p. 24. ISBN 0814323898. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
Hartmann, Susan M. (1999). The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07464-6. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

External links

Mae Eberhardt Interview Transcript, 1976-1981 OH-31. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Trade union women oral history project: 1978-1979 85223 Bimu C542 2. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

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[Black_Women_Oral_History_Project-1] "Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981: Biographies". Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America research Guides. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

[Labor_History_book-2] Sheridan, Clare M. (1992). Labor History Archives in the United States: A Guide for Researching and Teaching. Wayne State University Press. p. 24. ISBN 0814323898. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

[Yale_book-3] Hartmann, Susan M. (1999). The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07464-6. Retrieved 14 May 2020.