George Heriot DeReef

George Heriot DeReef
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	1869
Mutuwa	1937
Sana'a
Sana'a	lauya

George Heriot DeReef (5 ga Satumba, 1869 - 14 ga Agusta, 1937) lauya ne na Amurka, dan takarar siyasa, shugaban kare hakkin bil'adama, kuma ɗan kasuwa a Milwaukee, Wisconsin . Ya kasance shugaban reshen Milwaukee na NAACP .  –

Tarihin rayuwa

An haifi DeReef a Charleston, ta Kudu Carolina ga Joseph Moulton Francis DeReef da Georgina Oldfield (née Heriot DeReef). Ya yi karatu a makarantun jama'a. a Charleston, Jami'ar Claflin, kuma ya sami A.B. daga Jami'ar Howard . DeReef ta kammala karatu daga Makarantar Shari'a ta Jami'ar Howard a 1905 tare da LL. B. kuma magatakarda ga alƙalin birni Robert H. Terrell a Washington, DC, har sai ya koma Milwaukee kuma ya zama ɗaya daga cikin lauyoyin Afirka na Amurka a can.

DeReef ya kasance wakili a baje kolin 'yanci na' yanci a Birnin New York a shekarar 1913. Ya jagoranci Hukumar Wisconsin zuwa Bikin Shekarar Tsaro na 'Yancin Negro a Birnin Chicago a shekarar 1915. Yana da ofishinsa na lauya a cikin Ginin Empire .

A shekara ta 1924, ya lashe zaben fidda gwani na Jamhuriyar Republican na majalisar dokoki a gundumar Milwaukee ta shida, amma bai lashe zaben ba.

DeReef ya jagoranci babin Milwaukee na NAACP. A cikin Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944, marubucin J. Clay Smith, Jr., ya kwatanta DeReef a matsayin "ƙarfin ci gaba a cikin al'umma" wanda "ya yi yaƙi don ci gaba da haƙƙin baƙar fata a Milwaukee."

Ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kungiyar Columbia Building and Loan Association a Milwaukee kuma ya kasance darektan Milwaukeee Urban League . Ya zauna a 774 Hubbard Street .

DeReef ya mutu a ranar 14 ga Agusta, 1937, a Milwaukee .