Kotunan Gus

 

Kotunan Gus
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Pickens (en) , 1889
Mutuwa	1969
Sana'a

Gus Courts (2 ga Mayu, 1887 - 23 ga Afrilu, 1969) ya kasance mai mallakar kantin sayar da kayan masarufi na Amurka kuma shugaban kare hakkin bil'adama na Afirka. A shekara ta 1953, Kotuna da Rev. George W. Lee sun kafa Humphreys County, Mississippi chapter na National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). Yayinda yake jagorantar haƙƙin jefa kuri'a da rajista a cikin shekarun 1950, an harbe Kotuna kuma an ji musu rauni a shagon sa kuma daga baya ya shaida wa Majalisa game da ta'addanci a Mississippi.

Tarihin rayuwa

An haifi Gus Courts a ranar 2 ga Mayu, 1887, a Pickens, Mississippi ga iyayen da aka Bautar kafin yakin basasa. Yayinda yake girma, Kotuna daga ƙarshe sun mallaki kantin sayar da kayan masarufi a Belzoni, Mississippi. Kotuna sun shiga cikin Yunkurin kare hakkin bil'adama na cikin gida a cikin shekarun 1940. Ya yi aiki tare da Majalisar Yankin Jagorancin Negro, kuma a cikin 1953 ya kafa reshen Humphreys County na NAACP tare da Rev. George Lee .

A cikin Humpheys County, kashi 70% na yawan jama'a 'yan Afirka ne, amma kodayake gundumar tana da kimanin shekaru 16,000 na jefa kuri'a 'Yan Afirka na Afirka a cikin shekarun 1950, babu wani' yan Afirka na Afirka da ya jefa kuri'ar a cikin gundumar tun lokacin Sake ginawa a karni na 19. Kotuna da Lee sun sami damar shawo kan masu jefa kuri'a 400 don biyan harajin zabe, a matsayin mataki na farko na yin rajista don jefa kuri'u a cikin gundumar a lokacin, kuma mai wahalar saduwa da shingen ga yawancin masu aikin gona. Duk da barazanar jiki da tattalin arziki daga tsarin ikon farar fata na gundumar da kuma cikas daga masu rajistar gundumar, 94 daga cikinsu sun ɗauki mataki mai haɗari da wahala don yin rajista.

Yayinda rajistar ke ci gaba a watan Mayu na shekara ta 1955, masu tsattsauran ra'ayi na fararen fata sun harbe Rev. Lee a kan titin Belzoni, a cikin kisan da ba a warware shi ba. Rijistar jefa kuri'a ta fadi bayan kisan, amma a ranar zabe ta gaba, Kotuna sun gudanar da taro a shagon sa kuma mutane 22 sun ba da kansu don zuwa zaben don jefa kuri'u. Ko da yake an yi musu gargadi game da haɗarin, sun yi tafiya zuwa gidan kotu. A can, ma'aikatan gundumar sun ba su tambayoyi game da asalin su da ra'ayoyin kare hakkin bil'adama - duk an ki amincewa da jefa kuri'a.

Ci gaba da barazanar da yunkurin da bai yi nasara ba don yin zabe ba da daɗewa ba ya bar Ba'amurke Ba'amurkiya daya da ya yi rajista don yin zabe a cikin gundumar - Gus Courts, kuma ya ki ya sake yin rajista. Watanni shida bayan kisan Lee, an harbe Kotun a gaban kantin sayar da kayan masarufi. Duk da mummunan rauni, abokansa sun sami nasarar kai shi asibiti mai nisan mil tamanin. Kotuna dole ne su je zuwa yanzu don maganin gaggawa saboda asibitin yankin ya ware. Kodayake Ofishin Bincike na Tarayya (FBI) ya buɗe fayil a takaice, sun kasa tattara shaidu kuma shari'ar ta kasance ba a warware ta ba - ta hanyar ba da bayani game da tashin hankali na launin fata a Kudu ga Shugaba Dwight D. Eisenhower da majalisarsa, Darakta na FBI J Edgar Hoover ya bayyana ba shi da sha'awar kashe albarkatu a kan irin waɗannan laifuka.

Kotuna sun tsira daga harbi amma sun kammala cewa shi da matarsa dole ne su bar Mississippi, ba tare da son shiga Babban Migration ba. Sun koma Chicago kuma a shekara ta 1957, ya ba da shaida a gaban Majalisa game da abubuwan da ya samu da kuma ta'addanci na launin fata a jiharsa, wanda ya tilasta masu fafutukar kare hakkin bil'adama da yawa su gudu daga jihar don tserewa zuwa Chicago. Kotuna, sun sake farawa a shekara 65, sun buɗe kuma sun gudanar da sabon shago. Ya mutu a ranar 23 ga Afrilu, 1969, a Birnin Chicago, bai taba fahimtar burinsa na komawa Mississippi ba.