History & The Arts
World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke
...education. She was taken on a tour of the United States with her church choir and remained in the USA to study at Wilberforce University in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated with a B.Sc degree having met her husband. When they both returned to South Africa in 1901, Maxeke did so as South Africa's first Black woman graduate. Maxeke worked as a teacher and, together with her...