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Charlotte Maxeke

Dr. Manley's question - can you clarify where your new edits will go by including the entirety of the section? It is hard for me to judge how well the new material fits in without being able to see it all. Thanks! On 4/27: looks better; comma not needed after Council; I would use a word other than heavily; also, use Maxeke consistently (not Charlotte); "led her to be call'''ed" ? ;''' finally, i think your sources need a bit more information / data. However, these are some great additions!!!

Political activism
In the writing piece "Umteteli wa Banti" she wrote about these specific issues. She founded the Bantu Women's League of the SANNC in 1918. During her term in leadership of the Bantu Women's League, she led a delegation to the then South African Prime Minister, Louis Botha, to discuss the issues with passes for women. These discussions resulted in a protest against passes for women the following year. Maxeke and an army of 700 women marched to the Bloemfontein City Council, where they burned their passes.

Charlotte became politically active while in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in which she played a part in bringing to South Africa. While in the AME Church, Maxeke was heavily involved in teaching and preaching the Gospel and advocating education for Africans of South Africa. The church later elected her president of the Women's Missionary Society.

Maxeke participated with protests related to low wages at Witwatersrand and eventually joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union in 1920. Charlotte’s leadership skills led her to be call by the South African Ministry of Education to testify before several government commissions in Johannesburg on matters concerning African education— another first for an African of any gender.

Legacy
Maxeke is often honoured as the "Mother of Black Freedom in South Africa". There is an ANC nursery school named after Charlotte Maxeke'''. A statue of her stands in Pretoria’s Garden of Remembrance, in South Africa. '''

Foreign travel
After arriving in Kimberley, Northern Cape in 1885, Charlotte began teach fundamentals of indigenous languages to expatriates and basic English to African "boss-boys". However, it was music that soon changed her fortunes. Charlotte and her sister Katie joined the African Jubilee Choir in 1891. Her talent attracted the attention of Mr. K. V. Bam, a local choir master who was organising an African choir to tour Europe. Charlotte's rousing success after her first solo performance in Kimberley Town Hall immediately resulted in her appointment to the Europe-bound choir operation, which was taken over from Mr. Bam by a European. The group left Kimberley in early 1896 and sang to numerous audiences in major cities of Europe. Command royal performances, including one at Queen Victoria's 1897 Jubilee at London's Royal Albert Hall, added to their mounting prestige. According to the African Feminist Forum, the two women were treated like novelties, which made them uncomfortable.

While in London, Charlotte and her sister experience being treated as novelties.