Esther Burgess

Esther Julia Burgess (1911 - 2004; née Taylor)  ta kasance mai fafutuka ba tare da tashin hankali ba a cikin ƙungiyar 'Yancin Bil'adama. Ita ce matar Reverend John Melville Burgess, bishop na farko na Black a cikin Ikilisiyar Episcopal ta Amurka.Cocin Episcopal.

 St. Augustine zaune a cikin zanga-zangar 
A watan Maris na shekara ta 1964, Misis Burgess ta yi tafiya daga gidanta a Newton, Massachusetts, zuwa St. Augustine, Florida, a matsayin wani ɓangare na tawagar fararen da baƙar fata na cocin da Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. ya yi wahayi zuwa gare su. Ta shiga cikin zaman lafiya mai adawa da wariyar launin fata tare da wasu matan ministoci da yawa, ciki har da Mary Peabody, wacce ita ce matar Reverend Malcolm Peabody.  Mahaifiyar Endicott Peabody Dokta Robert B. Hayling, wani likitan hakora na baki wanda ya yi nazarin hanyoyin zanga-zangar da ba ta da tashin hankali kuma ya kasance jagora na gida a Kudancin Kudancin Kirista. Bayan ta zauna a gidan cin abinci a Ponce de Léon Motor Lodge, an kama Esther Burgess kuma ta tafi kurkuku tare da Dokta Hayling. Lokacin da Mary Peabody ta dawo washegari zuwa gidan cin abinci tare da wani rukuni, an kuma kama ta kuma ta kwashe dare biyu a kurkuku.

Tallafin da ya biyo baya ya jawo hankali ga rashin adalci na wariyar launin fata. zanga-zangar da ke gudana a St. Augustine sun kasance wani ɓangare na dogon lokaci zuwa ga sashi na ƙarshe watanni uku bayan Dokar 'Yancin Bil'adama.

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
An haifi Esther Taylor a New Brunswick, Kanada, ɗaya daga cikin yara biyar. Mahaifin su manomi ne. Ta kammala karatu tare da girmamawa daga makarantar sakandare ta Fredericton kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mai rubutun rubutu kafin ta bar Kanada a 1943 don halartar Kwalejin St. Augustine a Raleigh, North Carolina . 

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Rukuni:Haifaffun 1911