Henrietta Vinton Davis

Henrietta Vinton Davis (Agusta 25, 1860 - Nuwamba 23, 1941) ta kasance ƙwararriyar balaga, yar wasan kwaikwayo, kuma mai kwaikwaya. Baya ga kasancewarta "Firmiya ƴan wasan kwaikwayo na duk ƴan wasan baƙar fata na ƙarni na goma sha tara akan matakin ban mamaki",Hill, Errol G., and James V. Hatch (2003). A History of African American Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 0521624436. Marcus Garvey ya ayyana Davis a matsayin "mafi kyawun mace na tseren Negro a yau".Garvey, Marcus (1983). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: Aug. 1919 - Aug. 1920. University of California Press. p. 311. ISBN 0520050916.Bair, Barbara. "Facts on File History Database Center". Black Women in America: Social Activism, Encyclopedia of Black Women in America. Facts On File, Inc. Retrieved May 10, 2013

Davis ta yi aiki tare da Marcus Garvey, wanda ya kafa Ƙungiyar Ci Gaban Negro ta Duniya (UNIA), a cikin ayyuka da yawa. Daga kafuwarta a cikin 1919 har zuwa wargajewarta a tsakiyar shekarun 1930, ta rike manyan mukamai na jagoranci a cikin UNIA.Duncan, Natanya. "“If Our Men Hesitate Then the Women of the Race Must Come Forward”: Henrietta Vinton Davis and the UNIA in New York." New York History, vol. 95 no. 4, 2014, p. 558-583. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/nyh.2014.0002. A babban taron UNIA na kasa da kasa na farko a cikin 1920, an zabe ta a matsayin Oganeza na kasa da kasa"Davis, Henrietta Vinton (1860–1941) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed". www.blackpast.org. October 13, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2018.. A cikin 1927, bayan an kori Garvey zuwa Jamaica, an zaɓi Davis kuma ya zama shugaban ƙasa na UNIA, Inc. daga 1934-1940.Grant, Colin (2008). Negro with a hat : the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195367942. OCLC 177014251

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haifi Henrietta Vinton Davis a Baltimore ga Mary Ann Johnson da mijinta, mawaƙin Mansfield Vinton Davis.Davis, Henrietta Vinton (1860–1941) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed". www.blackpast.org. October 13, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2017.

 Iyaye 
Jim kadan bayan haihuwarta, mahaifinta ya rasu. A cikin watanni shida mahaifiyarta ta sake yin aure zuwa wani ɗan Baltimore mai tasiri, George A. Hackett, memba na Cocin Methodist Episcopal na Bethel.Swift, M. (February 28, 2018). "Henriette Vinton Davis: The Diplomat". BlackThen: Discovering our history. Retrieved September 2, 2018 Ya yi aiki don kayar da lissafin Jacobs na 1859 wanda aka ƙera don bautar da 'ya'yan Amurkawa 'yan Afirka masu zaman kansu da kuma korar iyayensu daga jihar Maryland. Hackett ya mutu a cikin Afrilu 1870 bayan gajeriyar rashin lafiya. Bayan mutuwarsa, Maryamu Ann Hackett ta ƙaura tare da 'yarta Henrietta zuwa Washington, D.C.

Asalin ilimi

Henrietta ta yi karatu a makarantun gwamnati.

 Sana'a 

 Koyarwa 
A lokacin tana da shekaru goma sha biyar, ta ci jarrabawar da ta dace kuma an ba ta matsayin malami a makarantun gwamnati na Maryland."Henrietta Vinton Davis: Lady Commander Order of the Nile". Kentake Page. August 15, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2018

Bayan wani lokaci na koyarwa a Maryland, Davis ya koma Louisiana don koyarwa. Daga baya ta koma Maryland don kula da mahaifiyarta da ke fama da rashin lafiya. Ta na da takardar shaidar hukumar ilimi.

 Aikin Gudanarwa 
A cikin 1878, yayin da take ƙaramar kuruciyarta, ta zama mace Ba-Amurke ta farko da Ofishin Mai rikodin AyyukanHenrietta Vinton Davis, Tragedienne." Weekly Pelican, 24 Sept. 1887, p. 2. Readex: African American Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/doc?p=EANAAA&docref=image/v2%3A12B765BAD85C2138%40EANAAA-12BEB298AD0FE380%402410539-12BBC97728E3DD70%401-12D628937851BD68%40Henrietta%2BVinton%2BDavis%252C%2BTragedienne. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021. ya ɗauke ta a Washington, D.C.; ta yi aiki a matsayin mai kwafi a ƙarƙashin George A. Sheridan. A cikin 1881, sanannen abolitionist, mai fafutukar kare hakkin jama'a, kuma abokin dangin Davis Frederick Douglass an nada shi mai rikodin ayyukan.Gardner, Lee (August 4, 2010). "THE LADY VANISHES Meet Henrietta Vinton Davis-one of the most amazing women you've probably never heard of". Baltimore City Paper via Archive.org. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved June 28, 2015.

 Wasan kwaikwayo da Wasanni 
A farkon 1880s, Davis ya fara zazzagewa da darussan fasaha na ban mamaki a ƙarƙashin kulawar Marguerite Saxton na Washington. A ranar 25 ga Afrilu, 1883, Frederick Douglass ya gabatar da ita a gaban fitattun masu sauraro. Ta fito a wasan kwaikwayo a New London, Connecticut; Jihar New York, Boston, Massachusetts; da "fiye da dozin na manyan biranen Gabas da Gabas ta Tsakiya".

A lokacin bazara na 1883, Davis (a ƙarƙashin jagorancin James Monroe Trotter da William H. Dupree) ya yi rangadin Boston, Worcester, da New Bedford, Massachusetts; Providence da Newport, Rhode Island; Hartford da New Haven, Connecticut; da New York City da Albany.

A wannan lokacin ta ci gaba da kammala aikinta a ƙarƙashin Farfesa Edwin Lawrence na New York da Rachael Nuhu na Boston. Ta kuma halarci Makarantar.Helen Krich Chinoy, Linda Walsh Jenkins (eds), Women In American Theatre, Saratoga, New York: Theatre Communications Group, p. 83; ISBN 1559362634.

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