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Interview no. | G-0280 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.3. Southern Women: Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South |
Project description | Interviews, conducted between 1979 and 1981 by Emily Herring Wilson, for her book Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South. Overall, Wilson interviewed more than forty older black women in North Carolina and selected twenty-seven for inclusion in the publication. The interviewees include gospel singers, midwives, teachers, ministers, college professors, civil rights organizers, artists, and musicians. |
Date | 28 May 1980 |
Interviewee | Xuma, Madie Hall, 1894-1982. |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1894 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wilson, Emily Herring. |
Abstract | Madie Hal Xuma was both a teacher and YWCA leader in North Carolina and in Johannesburg, South Africa. In her interview, she discusses her husband, Dr. Alfred Xuma, and his role as head of the African National Congress as well as her upbringing, education, and family. She discusses in great detail her upbringing as one of four children of Dr. H. H. Hall, Winston Salem’s first black doctor. She discusses meeting Mary McLeod Bethune while teaching in Florida and receiving her master’s degree from Columbia University. She further discusses her marriage, life in Africa, and her return to Winston Salem after the death of her husband. This interview was conducted in part for the book "Hope and Dignity: Older Black women of the South" with text by Emily Herring Wilson, photographs by Susan Mullally, and foreword by Maya Angelou, published in 1983 by Temple University Press. |
Citation | Interview with Madie Hal Xuma by Emily Herring Wilson, 28 May 1980 G-0280 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | G0280_Audio_1 |