Sylura Barron

Sylura Richardson Barron (Disamba 25, 1900 - Nuwamba 4, 1997) ta kasance mai fafutukar siyasa 'yar asalin Afirka-Amurka a San Diego, California daga shekarun 1940 zuwa 1990. A shekarar 1948, ta zama mace bakar fata ta farko da ta zama wakili a wani babban taron siyasa na ƙasa a Amurka, lokacin da ta wakilci California a babban taron Democrat na ƙasa da aka yi a Philadelphia a wannan shekarar.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Sylura Richardson a Mansfield, Louisiana, 'yar Richard Richardson da Cornelia Booker Richardson. Mahaifinta limamin cocin Baptist ne. 

 Sana'a 
Barron da mijinta sun mallaki kuma suna gudanar da wani shagon sayar da giya a San Diego. Ita ce shugabar ƙungiyar ilimi ta mata ta Negro, Kwamitin Ranar Negro na Ƙasa, kuma memba ce mai himma a Cocin Calvary Baptist, inda a wasu lokutan take taka rawa a matsayin ƙungiyar.  Ta canza jam'iyyarta daga Republican zuwa Democrat a matsayin mai goyon bayan Franklin D. Roosevelt . A shekarar 1948, Barron ta zama mace baƙar fata ta farko da ta zama wakili a wani babban taron siyasa na ƙasa, lokacin da ta wakilci California a tawagar Truman a Babban Taron Ƙasa na Democrat da aka yi a Philadelphia a wannan shekarar.  name="grant"  Duk da cewa wakiliya ce mai izini, ba a ba ta izinin shiga sauran wakilai a wani liyafa a otal ba, wataƙila saboda nuna farin ciki da ta nuna a farfajiyar taron a farkon ranar, lokacin da ta ɗauki tutar California ta fita ta zama jiha ta farko da ta bayyana goyon bayanta ga Truman yayin da wakilan jihar Kudu ke ƙoƙarin ɗaukar Eisenhower . Wakilan Hukumar Tsaron Sirri sun zo ɗakin otal ɗinta suna cewa: "'Ba a ba da shawarar ku sauko ba,' cewa wannan ba jihar Kudu ba ce yanzu, wannan Philadelphia ce", kuma aka aika musu da abincin zuwa ɗakinsu.  Alice Dunnigan, Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press (University of Georgia Press 2015): 129–130. 

Barron ta bar jam'iyyar Democrat na ɗan lokaci a shekarar 1951,  lokacin da take takarar kujerar Majalisar Birni a San Diego.  A shekarar 1957 ta halarci Babban Taron Baptist na Jihar California.  Ta kasance shugabar ƙungiyar Democrat ta John F. Kennedy ta San Diego a shekarar 1960. A shekarar 1972, ta kasance mataimakiyar shugabar ƙungiyar Democrat Woman Power, wata ƙungiyar mata ta Democrat da aka kafa a wannan shekarar a San Diego. 

A shekarar 1980, ta sake zama wakili a Babban Taron Jam'iyyar Democrat na Ƙasa, inda ta goyi bayan sake zaɓen Jimmy Carter .  A shekarar 1981, ta sami bugun zuciya jim kaɗan kafin Ranar Zaɓe, kuma ta shaida wa wani ɗan jarida daga gadonta na asibiti cewa wannan ne karo na farko da ta kaɗa ƙuri'a ta hanyar jefa ƙuri'a tun daga shekarun 1930.  A shekarunta na casa'in, har yanzu tana cikin bukukuwan al'umma, ciki har da faretin Ranar Martin Luther King Jr. a San Diego a shekarar 1992. 

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Sylura Richardson ta auri William M. Barron. Ta rasu a ranar 4 ga Nuwamba, 1997, bayan rasuwarta, ɗan majalisar dokokin California Bob Filner ya karrama ta a zauren Majalisar Wakilan Amurka, tsawon rayuwarta ta siyasa: "A tsawon rayuwarta, Sylura ta yi fafutukar haɓaka damarmakin ilimi da kasuwanci a cikin al'ummomin da galibi ba su da wakilci mai ƙarfi da kwarin gwiwa," in ji shi. "Sylura ta kasance mai tunani da hazaka mai tallata al'umma wacce za ta iya wuce rarrabuwar kawuna, aji, ƙabila, jinsi, da kuma yanayin jima'i. Sylura murya ce ga dukkanmu."

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1997
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1900