EVENT INFORMATION

18
Januari
1918

Bantu Women’s National League is formed under Charlotte Maxeke

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Organisatiegeschiedenis 📅 18 Januari 1918 📍 Zuid-Afrika

At a Johannesburg meeting attended by about 300 women and 100 men, the Bantu Women’s National League was established with Charlotte Maxeke as president. It organised women politically and sent a delegation to meet the government. The League became an important precursor to later ANC women’s structures. Its formation also highlights a contradiction in the Congress’s early history: women were central to resistance and organising but were not initially admitted as full members of the SANNC.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Charlotte Maxeke

Bantu Women’s National League organisers

Organisaties in dit Evenement

African National Congress