Dr. Hendricks writes in The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women’s Global Activism During Jim Crow & Apartheid that “when the Society for the Study of Afro-American History in Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, issued a call in June 1994 for community assistance with research and memorabilia for a 1995 historical calendar on Black women “who made distinctive contributions to the community between the early 1900s through 1959.” Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma made the list of an impressive group of women. Nearly a decade later, her name also appeared in the Wilson (NC) Daily Times as an educational tool for kindergarten through eighth grade students in a section called “Mind Designs.” Professor Hendricks goes on to contextualize Mrs. Madie, writing that “Hall Xuma had been propelled onto a global stage in South Africa in 1940 and by 1954 had made such an impact in the country that a representative of the Department of Bantu Education referred to her as “the mother of Africa.” Her presence in South Africa, “he insisted, “has meant a new day for our dark-skinned fellow-men of Africa,” and he declared, “Her name will not be forgotten in the annals of our day.” Indeed, more than sixty years later, South Africans still revered her. The Cape Town, South Africa, Weekend Argus contended in 2017, “If South Africa owes its constitutional democracy to the [African National Congress] and its heroic struggles, then the ANC owes its progressive outlook and gender sensibilities to a legion of its women cadres who, over the years, have weaved formidable foundational threads upon whose pivot this progressive culture is hinged.” These women were amongst the best minds that the country has ever nestled,” and “none of them suffered fools as they formidably held their own in a patriarchal and racist society.” Ultimately, they “could put any man to intellectual shame and in fact stand head and shoulders above most men.” Hall Xuma was the only Black American on the list that included an impressive array of South African women like Charlotte Maxeke, Sophie Mpama, Ruth First, Ruth Mompati, Bertha Gxowa, Ellen Kuzwayo, Lucy Mvubelo, Gertrude Shope, and Winnie Mandela. Hall Xuma, however, is virtually unknown to the general public, in part because she has been ignored in much of the historical literature, particularly by American scholars. South African scholars fare far better, but they have compartmentalized nearly every aspect of her life to such a degree that they have not been able to craft a broad conceptual framework that adequately demonstrates how centered she was in the historic issues facing the world during and after World War II and the pivotal role she played in the dynamic interplay between women’s groups globally after the war. Today, we present Professor Hendricks very important contribution to expanding our historical consciousness as we explore the Life of Madie Hall Xuma. Wanda A. Hendricks is a distinguished professor emerita of history at the University of South Carolina. Professor Hendricks has served as the National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians, and senior editor of the three-volume Black Women In America: Second Edition, published by Oxford University Press. She currently is an editor for the UIP’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History series, and her other books include Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois and the first biography of Black activist and intellectual Fannie Barrier Williams titled, Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race. Image: Part of the temporary exhibition, AMERICA’S VOICES AGAINST APARTHEID: Confronting Injustice at Home and Abroad via Apartheid Museum