Muriel Tillinghast

Muriel Tillinghast ɗan fafutukar kare hakkin jama'a Ba'amurke ne kuma tsohon sakataren filin wasa na Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) .  Ƙoƙarinta ya haɗa da aikin sa kai don Aikin bazara na 'Yanci a Mississippi inda ta taimaka fara mashahurin Makarantar 'Yanci ta 1964 kuma ta jagoranci Majalisar Mississippi's Council of Federated Organizations (COFO).  

 Hakkokin jama'a 

 SNCC da 'Yanci Summer 
Nan da nan bayan kammala karatunsa daga Jami'ar Howard, Tillinghast ya ba da kansa don jagorantar aikin SNCC a Mississippi. A cikin takaicin danginta, ta yanke shawarar karɓar matsayi a Greenville, Mississippi a matsayin wani ɓangare na Aikin bazara na 1964. Shigarta a cikin Aikin bazara ya haɗa da shirya Makarantar 'Yanci don koyar da tarihin Afirka Ba'amurke da tattauna haƙƙin jama'a da haƙƙin jefa ƙuri'a. A matsayinta na mai fafutuka na SNCC, ta yi aiki don yin rajistar masu jefa ƙuri'a da zazzagewa a duk faɗin gundumar.  Duk da yanayin da ba a sani ba da kuma tarihin tarihin kabilanci a Mississippi, Tillinghast ya ci gaba da jagorantar ayyukan SNCC a cikin yankunan Washington, Issaquena, da Sharkey . Daga baya ta zama darektan wannan aikin na Greenville kuma shugabar jihar COFO ta Mississippi (ƙungiyar laima da ta kula da SNCC da 1964 Summer Project), ta mai da ita ɗaya daga cikin mata uku da suka zama jagororin aiki a Mississippi.  

 Ci gaba da gwagwarmaya da aikin siyasa 
Bayan Muriel Tillinghast ta shiga cikin SNCC da kuma Civil Rights Movement, ta kasance mai ba da shawara ga 'yancin ɗan adam da na jama'a. A cikin shekarun 1970s, ta zama malami a Jami'ar Atlanta School of Social Work . Tun daga wannan lokacin, ta yi aiki sosai a kan batutuwan haƙƙin masu haya da ilimin kurkuku ta hanyar rawar da ta taka a matsayin mai gudanarwa a Ma'aikatar Tsaro da Ci Gaban Gidaje ta Birnin New York kuma a matsayin mai kula da ilimin kurkukun a Birnin Brooklyn House of Detention da Rikers Island . 

A cikin 1996, an zaɓi Tillinghast a matsayin ɗan takarar New York Green Party na mataimakin shugaban ƙasa tare da Ralph Nader . "Muriel Tillinghast". SNCC Digital Gateway. Retrieved 2021-04-30.

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