Mary Ellen Cable

Mary Ellen Cable malamar Amurka ce kuma mai fafutuka. Ta yi aiki a matsayin malama kuma shugabar Makarantun Jama'a na Indianapolis na 4, makarantar firamare ta farko ta Afirka ta Indianapolis da ke unguwar Ransom Place a lokacin wariyar launin fata. Ta kuma kafa babi na farko na Indianapolis na Ƙungiyar Ƙasa don Ci gaban Mutanen Launi (NAACP).

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Mary Ellen Cable (née Montgomery) a Leavenworth, Kansas a ranar 19 ga Satumba, 1861. A cikin shekarun 1870, ta sami digiri daga Makarantar Malami ta Leavenworth wanda ya ba ta damar koyar da daliban firamare a Fort Scott da Topeka, Kansas. Ta ci gaba da auren George Cable, malami, kuma tare suna da ɗa ɗaya, Dokta Theodore Cable   .

 Ayyuka 
Cable da iyalinta sun koma Indianapolis, Indiana a shekara ta 1893. George ta yi aiki a matsayin malami da kuma ofishin gidan waya yayin da Cable ta fara aikinta na shekaru 35 a makarantun jama'a na Indianapolis (IPS). A can ta yi aiki a matsayin malama, darektan koyarwa, da kuma shugaban a IPS No. 19, 23, 40, 24, da 4. Daga 1903 zuwa 1905, Cable ya kula da lambun kayan lambu na al'umma a Makarantar 24, wanda ya samar da sabbin kayan lambu ga al'umma kuma ya sa mazauna su dasa lambunan kansu.

A cikin shekarun 1910, kusan kashi ɗaya bisa uku na yawan mutanen Afirka na Marion County suna fama da tarin fuka. A kusa da 1916, tare da hadin gwiwar Kungiyar Inganta Mata (WIC) ta Indianapolis da sauran kungiyoyin mata baƙar fata, Cable ta kafa ɗayan ɗakunan ajiya uku na farko "sabon iska" da ke ba da gudummawa ga ɗaliban baƙar fata a Indianapolis don kare su daga cutar.

A cikin shekaru 17 na Cable a matsayin darektan aikin koyarwa, malamai 61 na Afirka na Amurka sun sami takardar shaidar Hukumar Makarantar Indianapolis, 5 daga cikinsu sun ci gaba da zama shugabanni.

Cable za ta ci gaba da zama shugaban makarantar IPS na 4, makarantar firamare ta farko ta Afirka ta Indianapolis da ke unguwar Ransom Place daga 1922 har zuwa lokacin da ta yi ritaya a 1933   .

Cable ta kasance mai aiki a cikin ayyukan zamantakewa da na jama'a. A shekara ta 1912, Cable ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar Kungiyar Civics ta Mata masu launi fata inda ta shirya kirkirar reshen NAACP na farko na Indianapolis kuma ta yi aiki ne a matsayin shugabanta na farko. A karkashin jagorancinta, reshen Indianapolis ya fadada a cikin adadin mambobi kuma ya jagoranci shirye-shirye a duk fadin jihar a kan Ku Klux Klan . 

Bugu da ƙari, ta kasance memba na Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, Browning Literary Society, da sauran kungiyoyi.

 Mutuwa da gado 
Cable ya mutu yana da shekaru 82 a ranar 19 ga Satumba, 1944 bayan ya yi yaƙi da rashin lafiya na tsawon shekaru biyar.
A cikin 1952, an keɓe Makarantar IPS No. 4 kuma an ba ta suna Makarantar Firamare ta Mary E. Cable . IUPUI za ta ci gaba da sayen makarantar bayan IPS ta rufe ginin a 1980 tana kiranta Ginin Mary E. Cable don nuna godiya ga aikin Cable. A shekara ta 2006, sun rushe ginin saboda gurɓataccen asbestos. IUPUI daga baya ya ba da sunan sabon ɗakin zama na ɗalibai wanda aka gina a madadinsa "Cable House".   

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