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The life of Madie Hall Xuma : black women's global activism during Jim Crow and apartheid / Wanda A. Hendricks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2022.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252053573
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DT1927 .L544 2022
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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"--

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