| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Women, gender, and sexuality in American history
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Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Xuma, Madie Hall, 1894-1982.
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Xuma, Alfred B. (Alfred Bitini), 1893-1962 -- Family.
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Xuma, Alfred B. (Alfred Bitini), 1893-1962. |
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Families. |
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African National Congress -- Biography.
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African National Congress. |
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Biographies.
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African Americans -- South Africa -- Biography.
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African Americans. |
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South Africa. |
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African American women political activists -- Biography.
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African American women political activists. |
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African American women social activists -- Biography.
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African American women educators -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- Biography.
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North Carolina -- Winston-Salem. |
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South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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Winston-Salem (N.C.) -- Biography.
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African American women educators. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) |
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Politics and government. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hendricks, Wanda A. Life of Madie Hall Xuma Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2022 9780252044564 (DLC) 2022004937 |
| ISBN |
0252053575 electronic book |
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9780252053573 (electronic book) |
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9780252044564 hardcover |
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9780252086649 paperback |
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