Lethia 'Yan uwan Fleming

Lethia Cousins Fleming (7 ga Nuwamba, 1876 - 22 ga Satumba, 1963) 'yar Afirka ce, malama, ma'aikaciyar zamantakewa, mai fafutukar kare hakkin bil'adama, kuma ta kasance mai aiki a siyasar Jamhuriyar Republican a matakin gida da na kasa.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haife ta ne a matsayin Lethia Cousins a ranar 7 ga Nuwamba, 1876, a Tazewell, Virginia, ga James Archibald Cousins da Fannie Taylor Cousins .  Mahaifinta baƙar fata ne kuma an haife shi kyauta, ya yi aiki a cikin Sojojin Confederate kuma bayan haka ya kasance masanin tubali. Fleming ita ce babba a cikin yara takwas a cikin iyalinta, ta halarci makarantar sakandare a Ironton, Virginia.

Fleming ta halarci Kwalejin Morristown a Tennessee; da Kwalejin Jihar Bluefield a West Virginia; inda ta yi karatun ilimi. Ta koyar a makarantu a Virginia, sannan a yankunan McDowell da Cabell a West Virginia . 

A ranar 21 ga Fabrairu, 1912, Lethia Cousins da Thomas "Tom" Wallace Fleming (1874-1948) sun yi aure. Tom lauya ne kuma a wannan lokacin ya yi aiki sau ɗaya a matsayin wakilin birnin Cleveland, auren Lethia shine na biyu. Ma'auratan ba su da yara, kuma Thomas yana da 'ya'ya uku daga aurensa na farko wanda Lethia ta taimaka wajen tayar da shi. Tana da sha'awar Bangaskiyar Baha'i . 

 Ayyuka 
A shekara ta 1914, Lethia Fleming ta kasance shugabar Kwamitin Lady Managers na Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People .  Ta dauki alhakin kuma ta ba da umarnin yunkurin kamfen tsakanin matan Afirka na Amurka don jefa kuri'a ga mijinta Tom Fleming a lokacin yakin neman zabe na 1915 don kujerar Majalisar Birni daga Ward 11.

Farawa a cikin 1920, Fleming ya ba da umarnin ƙoƙarin kamfen na kasa tsakanin matan baƙar fata don 'yan takarar shugaban kasa na Jamhuriyar Republican guda uku, Warren G. Harding (1920), Herbert Hoover (1936), da Alfred M. Landon (1940). 

A shekara ta 1929, Fleming ta yi ƙoƙari ta yi takara don zama a majalisar birni ta Cleveland, bayan an daure mijinta.

Fleming ya kasance memba na kungiyoyi ciki har da Travelers Aid Society, ofishin Cleveland na National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), da Phillis Wheatley Association .  Ta kasance a cikin kwamitin farko na Negro Welfare Association (yanzu National Urban League).  Fleming ita ce mace ta farko da ta zama mai kula da Ikilisiyar Ikilisiyar Mt. Zion a Cleveland.  

Ta mutu a ranar 22 ga Satumba, 1963, a Cleveland kuma an binne ta a Kabari na Lake View . 

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