Willard W. Allen

An haifi Willard W. Allen (Mayu 3, 1888 - 1961) a cikin Buckingham County, Virginia ga George da Elizabeth Allen . Allen ya isa Baltimore, Maryland a shekara ta 1904 inda ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ɗaukar kaya a cikin motar jirgin ƙasa mai zaman kanta ga George L. Potter, Mataimakin Shugaban Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; daga ƙarshe ya yi aiki ne a gidan Potter a Towson, Maryland. Ya kuma sami kuɗi ta hanyar isar da jaridu ga Herald. Daga ƙarshe Allen ya adana isasshen kuɗi don shiga kasuwancin inshora, yana aiki ga Kamfanin Mutual Benefit a matsayin wakili na cikakken lokaci. A shekara ta 1922, ya bar Mutual ya yi aiki a Kamfanin Inshora na Kudancin kuma a 1925, ya zama shugaban farko na kamfanin. Ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kasa har zuwa lokacin da ya yi ritaya a shekarar 1959.

Baya ga aikinsa na Kudancin, Allen ya yi aiki a cikin ƙasa a matsayin dillali kuma ya shiga cikin abubuwan da suka shafi jama'a. Ya kasance mai digiri na 33 na Scottish Rite Mason kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban Jagora na Mafi Girma Prince Hall Grand Lodge na Maryland . 

Allen ya yi aure sau biyu; na farko a shekara ta 1914 ga Thekla Henson, tare da wanda ya haifi 'ya'ya mata biyu: Madelyn da Elizabeth Allen . Aure na biyu ya kasance a 1926 ga Gladys Rawlings .

Ya yi aiki a cikin Kwamitin Amintattun Jami'ar Virginia Union daga 1950 har zuwa 1960. Ya yi aiki a Kwamitin Amintattun Kwalejin Jihar Morgan (yanzu Jami'ar Jihar Morgan) sama da shekaru ashirin. Mataimakin shugaban yankin na Ƙungiyar Kasuwancin Negro ta Kasa kuma darektan NAACP.

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Rukuni:Matattun 1961