Joel Atkins

Joel Elvin Atkins (an haife shi ranar 5 ga watan Oktoba, 1997) ya kasance Babban Fasto na Ikilisiyar Baptist na Zion Hill na tsawon shekaru 42 har zuwa mutuwarsa a shekarar 1997. Ya kasance shugaban coci kuma shugaban yankin na Winter Haven, Florida na NAACP  kafin ya zama shugaban NAACP a duk fadin jihar.  Ya kasance mai shirya kan hadin kai da kokarin kare hakkin bil'adama a jihar.

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Theodosia Sarah Owens Atkins ita ce matarsa ta shekaru 50. Abokantakarsa ta dogon lokaci tare da Jack Young ta haifar da sa hannu a cikin bayar da shawarwari a madadin James Joseph Richardson . 

Ya mutu a Miami a ranar Lahadi, 5 ga Oktoba, 1997, yana da shekaru 75.  Ya bar matarsa da yara huɗu.

 Yunkurin fafutuka 
Joel Elvin Atkins ya kasance shugaban wani reshe na NAACP a Winter Haven, Florida . Ya zama shugaban reshen jihar kuma ya kalubalanci cikas da jinkirta yunkurin bas din makaranta na gwamnan Florida Claude Kirk. Ya ba da shawarar yin aiki na zamantakewa game da rikice-rikice a taron a matsayin mafita ga matsalolin da ke gudana a shekarar 1967. A shekara ta 1970, ya nuna damuwa cewa ga mafi yawan lokuta na mutuwar da jami'an tsaro suka yi wa wadanda abin ya shafa baƙar fata ne.

An dauki hotonsa tare da Tal Rutledge da Rev. Omega F. Neaman a wani taron NAACP. 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1997