Sarah Tarleton Colvin

Sarah Tarleton Colvin (Satumba 12, 1865 - Afrilu 22, 1949) wata ma'aikaciyar jinya ce kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin mata wacce ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar Jam'iyyar Mata ta kasa a 1933. An daure ta saboda fafutuka yayin da take zabar fadar White House a 1918 da 1919, Colvin kuma ta rubuta tarihin rayuwarta.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Sarah Lightfoot Tarleton a ranar 12 ga Satumba, 1865, a gundumar Greene, Alabama, a matsayin ɗan fari na Sallie Bernard (née Lightfoot) da Robert Tarleton.    Mahaifinta likita ne, bayan ya kammala karatunsa a Jami'ar Yale kuma ya yi aiki a cikin Sojoji na Confederate a lokacin yakin basasa .   Mahaifiyarta ta fito ne daga zuriyar Lieutenant Philip Lightfoot, wanda ya yi aiki a Rundunar Sojojin Amurka na Harrison na Virginia, a lokacin juyin juya halin Amurka .  Lokacin da yakin ya ƙare, dangi sun zauna tare da kakannin mahaifin Tarlton a Caddo Parish, Louisiana, inda aka haifi ɗan'uwanta, Robert Jr.. Iyalin sai suka ƙaura zuwa Mobile, Alabama, inda mahaifinta ya mutu lokacin da Tarlton yana da shekaru uku, daga rikice-rikice na aikin yaƙi. An haifi 'yar uwarta Margaret washegarin rasuwar mahaifinta a shekara ta 1868. 

Bayan mutuwar mahaifinsu, dangi sun motsa sau da yawa, suna zaune a wurare daban-daban a Alabama, Louisiana da Mississippi kafin su zauna a Baltimore, Maryland, a cikin 1878. Bayan ta halarta a karon da kuma dogon tafiya a kasashen waje, Tarleton ya shiga makarantar reno a Johns Hopkins School of Nursing,  kammala karatunsa a 1892, bayan shekara biyu.  

 Sana'a 
Bayan kammala karatunta da kuma kan rashin amincewar danginta, Tarleton ta karɓi matsayin shugaban ma'aikacin jinya a Johns Hopkins na tsawon watanni shida. Daga nan ta yi aiki na ɗan lokaci a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya mai zaman kanta a birnin New York, kafin ta koma Montreal, Kanada don ɗaukar matsayi a Asibitin Royal Victoria a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya. Yayin da take Montreal, ta sadu da Dr. Alexander R. Colvin, wanda ta aura a Baltimore a ranar 1 ga Yuni, 1897. Bayan aurensu, ma'auratan sun zauna a Saint Paul, Minnesota . 

Domin ci gaba da yin aikin jinya bayan aurenta ana ganin bai dace ba, Colvin ya mai da hankalinta ga inganta ilimin mata a aikin jinya.  Ta yi aiki a kan hukumar gidan Deaconess daga zuwansu a 1897  kuma a cikin 1906 aka zaba a matsayin shugabar kafa kungiyar ma'aikatan jinya ta Jihar Minnesota.  Har ila yau, ta yi aiki ga wasu kungiyoyi na jama'a, ciki har da yin aiki a matsayin darekta na Ƙungiyar Jama'a,  a matsayin memba na kafa YWCA  kuma a matsayin shugaban kungiyar Anti-Tuberculosis Society.  A cikin 1915, ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa Jam'iyyar Mata ta ƙasa, reshen Minnesota, kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin kujera ta 1920. 

Colvin ya zama daya daga cikin manyan masu kare hakkin mata a Minnesota  kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mai tsara kasa, yana tafiya zuwa wasu yankuna, kamar Kansas da Washington, DC don matsawa don zaben mata   da kuma hana haihuwa, wanda a lokacin ya kasance ba bisa doka ba a Minnesota.  A lokaci guda a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya, ta yi aiki a matsayin Red Cross da ma'aikaciyar jinya. Idan aka ba da matsayi na manyan, ita ce Mukaddashin Shugaban Ma'aikatan Jiyya a Fort McHenry . A matsayinta na memba na Silent Sentinels ta shiga cikin zaɓen Fadar White House a cikin 1918 kuma a cikin Janairu 1919 an kama ta sau biyu.   Colvin ya bayyana ɗaurin kurkuku a matsayin duka na tsoro da tawaye, amma bayan zangon farko, ta shiga yajin cin abinci, wanda ya kai ga yanke mata hukunci na biyu. 

Lokacin da yaƙin ya ƙare, Colvin ya shiga ƙungiyoyin kwance damara da Ƙungiyar Mata ta Duniya don Zaman Lafiya da 'Yanci (WILPF), tana aiki a kwamitin reshen Minneapolis na WILPF.   Da zarar mata sun sami nasarar jefa kuri'a, ta shiga Jam'iyyar Farmer-Labor Party ta Minnesota, tana aiki don ilimantar da mutane kan batutuwan  da kuma matsa lamba don amincewa da Daidaita Hakkokin .  A cikin 1933, an zabe ta a matsayin shugabar jam'iyyar mata ta kasa kuma ta mai da hankalinta kan batutuwan daidaiton albashi.   An zabe ta don yin aiki a Hukumar Ilimi ta Jiha a 1935  kuma ta ci gaba da matsa lamba don sake fasalin aikin jinya da biyan daidaito ga ma'aikatan jinya na Amurka da Kanada har zuwa ƙarshen 1930s.   A cikin 1944, ta buga tarihin rayuwarta, A Rebel in Thinking, tana ba da labarin abubuwan da ta samu a cikin motsin zaɓe. 

 Mutuwa da gado 
Colvin ya mutu a ranar 22 ga Afrilu, 1949, a Ramsey, Minnesota .   An nuna ta a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin tarihin rayuwar Juyin Juyawar Suffragist Memorial Association  kuma an girmama shi akan Memorial Woman Suffrage Memorial na Minnesota . 

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