Constance Porter Uzelac

Constance Porter Uzelac (1939-2012),  name="Morand 2020"> wadda aka fi sani da Coni Porter Uzelac, ta kasance mai kula da ɗakin karatu na likita kuma mai adana bayanai a Amurka.  name="Emory bio"> Ta kasance Babban Darakta na Cibiyar Bincike ta Dorothy Porter Wesley .  Ita 'yar Dorothy Porter Wesley ce da James Amos Porter,  kuma ta taimaka wa Wesley da rubuta littattafai da yawa.  Ta kuma yi aiki a kan tsara dukkan ayyukan mahaifiyarta da aka ajiye a Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka ta Afirka. Katalogin mahaifinta ya kasance wani ɓangare na nune-nunen James A. Porter: From Me To You wanda aka nuna a wurare daban-daban a fadin Amurka.

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An haife ta a Washington DC,  Uzelac ta sami digiri a cikin karatun ɗakin karatu kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da ɗakin karatu na likita ga mafi yawan rayuwarta. Bayan rasuwar mahaifinta a shekara ta 1987, ita da mijinta sun bar gidansu a California don su kasance kusa da mahaifiyarta Dorothy a Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A lokacin, Dorothy Porter tana aiki a kan shirya tushe a kan William Cooper Nell don rubuta cikakken tarihin rayuwarsa. Uzelac ya shiga don taimakawa tare da bincike, da farko na ɗan lokaci sannan kuma a matsayin marubuci na dindindin don aikin.

Sa'an nan, lokacin da mahaifiyarta ta mutu a 1995, Uzelac ta tura cikakken tarin kayan da iyayenta suka mallaka da farko zuwa wani ɗakin karatu a Washington DC sannan zuwa wani gida a Fort Lauderdale, tare da tarin da aka samo asali a cikin akwatuna 720 daban-daban. Tarin da Uzelac ya tsara ya haɗa da ba kawai rubuce-rubuce da litattafan dafa abinci daga bayi da bayin Afirka ba, har ma da kayan da ba na wallafe-wallafen ba kamar zane-zane, zane-zane. Masanin tarihi Charles L. Blockson ne ya lura da su musamman saboda ɓangarorin da ke cikin tarin Uzelac galibi suna ƙunshe da sa hannu na gaskiya.

A cikin 1999, har yanzu tana cikin yanke shawara game da abin da za ta yi da tarin da kuma yadda ya kamata a nuna shi ga jama'a. Kungiyoyin da ke da sha'awar sun haɗa da Laburaren Majalisa, Laburaren Bincike na Afirka da Cibiyar Al'adu, da Smithsonian .  Daga nan sai ta shirya tarin a cikin ɗakin karatu na Dorothy Porter Wesley, wanda ta yi aiki a matsayin babban darakta na. Saboda sa hannu a cikin kirkirar Laburaren Bincike na Afirka da Cibiyar Al'adu a Fort Lauderdale, ta yanke shawarar ba da gudummawa ga wani ɓangare na tarin ga cibiyar.

An nuna adadi mai yawa na zane-zanen mahaifinta a matsayin nune-nunen gallery na watanni da yawa kuma an yi amfani da ƙarin abubuwa 80 a cikin gallery mai tafiya a fadin Amurka. An kuma ba da kyauta da yawa ga gidan gwamnan Maryland da gidan diflomasiyya. Don tarin littattafan mahaifiyarta, an ba da rance biyu ga Smithsonian da 50 a matsayin nuni na ɗakin karatu. Yawancin tarin ta suna cikin Babban Laburaren Broward County mai taken The Archives of Dorothy Porter Wesley . Ta kafa jerin shafukan yanar gizo na ilimi a shekara ta 2003 wanda ke nuna tarihin Afirka. Baya ga aikinta na warkarwa, ta kuma yi aiki a kan kwamitin reshen Greater Fort Lauderdale na Sister Cities International . Uzelac ya mutu a watan Afrilun 2012 saboda rikitarwa daga ciwon daji.

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 Constance Porter Uzelac (2000). Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995): Mai kula da Laburaren Afirka da Bibliophile
 Nell, William C., Dorothy Porter Wesley, da Constance Porter Uzelac (2002). William Cooper Nell, ɗan Afirka na ƙarni na sha tara, ɗan tarihi, mai haɗin kaiMorand, Michael (February 13, 2020). "Black History Month Pop-Up Exhibit Celebrates Carter G. Woodson, Dorothy Porter Wesley, and Golden Legacy Magazine". Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Yale University Library. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
 Constance Porter Uzelac (2011) (ed.). Baƙo a Ƙasar Ɗaya: Tarihin Charles H. Wesley (ba a buga shi ba) 

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Rukuni:Matattun 2012
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1939