Cordell Reagon

Cordell Hull Reagon (22 ga Fabrairu, 1943 - Nuwamba 12, 1996) mawaƙi ne kuma ɗan gwagwarmaya. Ya kasance memba na kungiyar 'Yanci na 'Yanci na Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), jagora na Albany Movement da Freedom Rider a lokacin Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Bil'adama .

Rayuwar farko

An haifi Reagon a Nashville, Tennessee, kuma an ba shi suna don Cordell Hull, Sakataren Gwamnati a ƙarƙashin Shugaba Franklin D. Roosevelt daga 1933 zuwa 1944. Reagon mai ƙarfi murya mai ƙarfi ya yada saƙon ƙungiyoyin kare hakkin jama'a a ko'ina cikin Amurka da Kanada a cikin 1960s.

Harkarwa da sana'ar waka

Reagon yana da shekaru 16 a cikin 1959 lokacin da ya fito a matsayin jagoran gwagwarmayar kare hakkin jama'a a Albany, Georgia . James Forman, wanda ya zama babban sakataren SNCC, ya kira shi "jarin motsi". Reagon, wanda aka kama shi fiye da sau 30 a Kudancin kasar saboda ayyukansa na yaki da wariyar launin fata, ya gudanar da taron horaswa ba tare da tashin hankali ba ga daruruwan masu aikin sa kai da suka yi tattaki zuwa Kudu domin gudanar da yakin neman zabe da sauran ayyukan kare hakkin jama'a.

A cikin 1962, a ƙarfafawar aboki Pete Seeger, Reagon ya kafa The Freedom Singers, quartet na maza biyu da mata biyu waɗanda suka rera waƙoƙin yanci irin na bishara don tayar da goyon baya ga ƙungiyoyin yancin ɗan adam. Wakokin sun kawo gwagwarmayar neman hakkin jama'a da ayyukanta ga dimbin masu sauraro. Mutanen da abin ya shafa sun kasance mawaƙa—a cikin mawakan coci, a makarantu, har da matarsa ta farko, Bernice. Shirya kiɗan kawai ya shiga cikin ƙarfin rera waƙa na al'umma kuma ya ba da hankali ga gwagwarmaya.

A cikin ƙarshen 1960s da farkon 1970s, Reagon ya zama mai aiki a cikin ƙungiyoyin yaƙi da Yaƙin Vietnam, makaman nukiliya, da lalata muhalli. Daga 1965 har zuwa 1988, ya zauna a birnin New York tare da matarsa ta biyu, Merble Reagon, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mai shiryawa ga Ƙungiyar Ma'aikatan Sabis ta Jama'a, Mobilisation for Survival, ya kasance ma'aikacin matasa don Tattaunawa don Matasa kuma mai ba da shawara na sana'a. A cikin 1988, ya ƙaura zuwa Berkeley, California, inda ya kafa ƙungiyar muhalli Urban Habitat and Urban Justice Organisation.

Cordell Reagon ya kasance mai fafutuka har zuwa mutuwarsa a shekarar 1996 yana da shekaru 53 a gidansa na Berkeley, wanda har yanzu ba a warware kisa ba.

Rayuwa ta sirri

Auren Reagon guda biyu: ga Bernice Johnson na Albany, Jojiya, da Merble Harrington na Suffield, Connecticut, sun ƙare cikin kisan aure. Ya rasu da 'ya'yansa 2: Toshi Reagon da Kwan Tauna Reagon na Oakland, California, Mar (Reagon) Fitzgerald na Manhattan, da DaLisa (Reagon) Ƙaunar Las Vegas, Nevada .

Cordell Reagon shine ƙarami a cikin yara 14.