Curlee Brown Sr.

Curlee Brown Sr. (an haife shi a shekara ta 1909) ya kasance dan gwagwarmayar Afirka-Amurka wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban NAACP na Paducah. An san shi da ƙaddamar da shari'ar shari'a wacce ta haifar da haɗin gwiwar abin da zai zama Kwalejin Al'umma da Fasaha ta Yammacin Kentucky.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Curlee Brown Sr. a 1909 a Hollandale, Mississippi ga Dave da Dora Brown . Bayan iyayensa sun sake aure sai ya koma tare da mahaifinsa zuwa Helena, Arkansas sannan kuma Paducah, Kentucky, inda ya zauna har tsawon rayuwarsa. Brown Sr. ya ci gaba da halartar Kwalejin Masana'antu ta Yammacin Kentucky da Makarantar Kwarewar Yammacin Kent, inda ya yi karatun masassaƙa da yin majalisa.

 Yunkurin fafutuka 
A shekara ta 1940 Brown Sr. ya zama shugaban Paducah NAACP, inda ya yi aiki daga 1940 har zuwa mutuwarsa. Curlee ya ba da darajar ilimi tare da daidaito. Ya kaddamar da karar da ta samu nasara a kan Kwalejin Al'umma da Fasaha ta Yammacin Kentucky, wanda aka fi sani da Kwalejin Paducah Junior, wanda ya haifar da hadewar makarantar. Brown ya yi ƙoƙari ya yi rajista a makarantar don shekarar 1951, sai kawai a ƙi shi saboda Dokar Rana, wanda aka gyara a 1950 kuma ya haramta rarrabe kowane nau'i a makarantu. Kotun Gundumar Amurka a Paducah ta yanke hukuncin cewa kwalejin dole ne ya ba da damar Brown da sauran masu neman baƙar fata su yi rajista kuma kwalejin ta yi ƙoƙari mara nasara don daukaka kara; a ƙarshe an haɗa makarantar. Ɗansa zai ci gaba da zama Ba'amurke na farko da ya kammala karatu daga kwalejin; 'yarsa za ta zama baƙar fata na biyu da ya kammala karatun ƙaramin kwalejin yankin.

A shekara ta 1957 ya yi tafiya zuwa Detroit, Michigan don jin Martin Luther King Jr. yana magana game da al'amuran kare hakkin bil'adama, inda ya sadu da shugaban Detroit NAACP Gloster Current wanda ya ƙarfafa shi ya ci gaba da fada.

 Rayuwa da gado na baya 
Brown Sr. ya sami amincewar Paducah Sun Democrat saboda gudummawar da ya bayar ga kawar da wariyar launin fata. Ya kuma sami kyaututtuka irin su takardar shaidar cancanta don aiki mai ban sha'awa da gudummawar kansa na lokaci da ƙoƙari ga al'umma.

Curlee Brown Sr., ya mutu a ranar 18 ga Nuwamba, 1976.

Don girmama gadonsa Kentucky NAACP ta kirkiro Curlee Brown Scholarship kuma reshen Paducah na NAACP ya kirkiro Curley Brown Award, wanda suke bayarwa ga mutanen da suka yi tasiri a fagen haƙƙin ɗan adam. A cikin 2010 an shigar da Brown Sr. cikin Gidan Shahararren Kare Hakkin Bil'adama na Kentucky. 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1976
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1909