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The Life of Madie Hall Xuma : Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid
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Title
The Life of Madie Hall Xuma : Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid / Wanda A. Hendricks.
ISBN
9780252053573
9780252086649
9780252044564
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Summary
"Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Wanda A. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already known for her social welfare work when she married South African physician and ANC activist Alfred Bitini Xuma. Becoming president of the ANC Women's League put Hall Xuma at the forefront of fighting racial discrimination as South Africa moved toward apartheid. Hendricks provides the long-overlooked context for the events that undergirded Hall Xuma's life and work. As she shows, a confluence of history, ideas, and organizations both shaped Hall Xuma and centered her in the histories of Black women and women's activism, and of South Africa and the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
Women, gender, and sexuality in American history
Contents
Winston-Salem
The making of Madie Beatrice Hall
"I wanted to be a doctor" : coming of age
"Women are awakening" : shaping the parameters of black and white alliances
New York
The bridge between Jim Crow and apartheid
"If I had wings I would truly fly over" : the courtship
South Africa
"I had to do something for women here"
"Prominent South African woman arrives in New York"
A transnational nexus : the world YWCA.
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Biographies.
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