Ƙungiyar Taimako ta Tsaffin Bayi ta Kasa, Kyauta da Fensho

Kungiyar Taimakon Mutual Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association (MRB&PA) kungiya ce da aka kafa da nufin samun fansho ga tsoffin bayi daga Gwamnatin Tarayya a matsayin diyya da diyya ga ayyukan da ba a biya su ba da wahala. An kafa kungiyar a cikin 1896 kuma an yi hayar a 1898 a Nashville, Tennessee, tsohuwar bayi Callie House da Isaiah H. Dickerson ne suka kafa kungiyar. A cewar ƴan tarihi Mary Frances Berry, ƙungiyar ita ce “ƙungiya ta farko da ta fara ɗora wa jama’a ɗimbin ɗimbin ɗimbin ɗimbin jama’a wanda ’yan Afirka Amirkawa suka jagoranta. 

 Tarihin farko 
Wani ƙoƙarce-ƙoƙarce na farko don samun fansho ga tsoffin bayi ya jagoranci editan jaridar farar fata, Walter R. Vaughan na Omaha, Nebraska. Ya misalta tsarinsa na fansho da gwamnatin tarayya ta baiwa tsoffin sojojin kungiyar, kuma ya jawo hankalin dan majalisarsa, William James Connell (R-NE) ya gabatar da matakin ga majalisar wakilai a 1890. Wani ɗan ƙasar Selma, Alabama, Vaughan ya yi imanin cewa fansho ga tsoffin bayi zai samar da ƙarin ƙarfin tattalin arziki da kwanciyar hankali ga Sabuwar Kudu. A shekara ta 1891 ya buga wata ƙasida mai suna "Freedmen's Pension Bill: Plea for American Freedmen," kuma ya sayar da kwafi a dala ɗaya.  Wani baƙar fata wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin mai rarraba ƙasidar Vaughan shine Isaiah Dickerson na gundumar Rutherford, Tennessee. Bayan 'yan shekaru, Dickerson da Callie House za su kaddamar da nasu fensho da ramuwa motsi ta hanyar kafa wata kungiya karkashin jagorancin da kuma kunshi 'yan Afirka Amirkawa. Littafin Nashville City Directory na 1900 ya lissafa adireshi na Taimakon Mutual na Tsohon Bawan Ƙasa, Kyauta da Aikace-aikacen Fansho kamar yadda yake a 903 Church Street a Nashville.

 Taro 
An gudanar da taron shekara-shekara na farko na Taimakon Mutual Mutual na Ƙasa, Kyauta da Ƙungiyar Fansho daga Nuwamba 28 zuwa Disamba 1, 1898, a Nashville, Tennessee, a Cocin Kirista na Gay Street. Daga cikin wadanda suka halarta akwai James C. Napier da Rev. RH Boyd . Babban abin da aka fi maida hankali a kai a wannan taro na farko shi ne daukar matakin goyon baya ko adawa da dokar tarayya kan batutuwan da suka shafi tsoffin bayi. 

 Ƙoƙarin doka 
Ƙungiya ta goyi bayan wani lissafin da Jeremiah D. Botkin (D-KS) ya gabatar a watan Maris 1898 don samun gidajen zama ga tsofaffin bayi da iyalansu. 

 Ƙoƙarin agaji 
Kungiyar ta kuma nemi bayar da agaji da tallafi daban-daban ga mambobinta. Wannan ya haɗa da fa'idodin binnewa da taimako ga membobinta a lokacin rashin lafiya ko rikici.

 Binciken tarayya 
Ma'aikatar Shari'a ta Amurka da Ofishin Wasita na fuskantar bincike da gurfanar da kungiyar bisa zargin yin amfani da wasiku wajen damfari mambobinta.

 Karya 
An daure Callie House a kurkuku a cikin 1918, kuma wannan ya kawo ƙarshen ƙoƙarin majalisa na National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association.

 Bayanan kafa 

 Kara karantawa 


 Berry, Mary F. "Reparations for Freedmen, 1890–1916: Fraudulent Practices or Justice Deferred?" Journal of Negro History, vol. 57, no. 3 (July 1972), pp. 219–230.