Happy birthday,Charlotte Maxeke
Today, Google illustrates a beautiful doodle to celebrate South African anti-apartheid activist 151 birthday. One of the first Black women graduates in South Africa, a leading figure of white dissent of the unjust practice of apartheid,Charlotte Maxeke is widely considered one of South Africa’s most influential freedom fighters and women’s rights advocates.
Charlotte Maxeke 7 April 1871 was a South African religious leader, social and political activist; she was the first black woman to graduate with a university degree in South Africa with a B.sc from Wilberforce University Ohio in 1903, as well as the first black African woman to graduate from an American university.
Maxeke was an individual whose every action was expressive of her extraordinary intellect, determination, courage, principles and love of God. Yet because of her gender, her name is sadly overlooked in the history of South Africa.