Julia Evangeline Brooks

Julia Evangeline Brooks (Yuni, 1882 – Nuwamba 24, 1948) ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa Alpha Kappa Alpha, ƙungiyar mata ta farko da mata 'yan Afirka-Amurkawa suka kafa.

Bayan ta sami digirin BA a Jami'ar Howard da kuma digirin MA a Jami'ar Columbia, Brooks ta kasance mai himma wajen koyarwa har tsawon rayuwarta. Ta yi aiki a mafi yawan lokacin aikinta a Makarantar Sakandare ta Dunbar da ke Washington, DC. Ta kasance mataimakiyar shugabar makaranta a can tsawon shekaru 26, kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin Shugabar 'Yan Mata.

 Rayuwar farko 
Brooks tana ɗaya daga cikin 'ya'ya goma da Walter Henderson Brooks da Eva (Holmes) Brooks suka haifa a New Orleans, Louisiana .  Mahaifinta, wanda aka bautar tun yana yaro, ya sami damar samun ilimi, inda ya sami digirin BA da tauhidi daga Jami'ar Lincoln da ke Oxford, Pennsylvania a 1873. Ya zama fasto na Cocin Baptist na Nineteenth Street da ke Washington, DC.  

A lokacin ƙuruciyarta, Brooks ta halarci makarantun gwamnati a Washington, DC Brooks ta yi rajista a Makarantar Firamare ta Sumner Magruder da Makarantar Sakandare ta M Street (wanda aka fi sani da Makarantar Sakandare ta Dunbar). 

Bayan kammala karatun sakandare, Brooks ta shiga Makarantar Miner Normal School, wata makarantar horar da malamai. Ta koyar da firamare na tsawon shekaru kaɗan, sannan Brooks ta ci gaba da karatu a Jami'ar Howard.

 Rayuwar kwaleji da kuma shiga Alpha Kappa Alpha 
Brooks yana ɗaya daga cikin mambobi da dama waɗanda suka goyi bayan ra'ayin haɗa Alpha Kappa Alpha don samar da fa'idarsa a nan gaba.  Sakamakon haka, Brooks, Nellie Quander, Norma Boyd, Nellie Pratt Russell, Minnie B. Smith da Ethel Jones Mowbray sun haɗa Alpha Kappa Alpha a ranar 29 ga Janairu, 1913.  Brooks da sauran waɗanda suka haɗa, an jera sunayensu a cikin Mataki na Huɗu na Takaddun Shaidar Haɗa Ƙungiyar 'Yan Uwa. Bayan haɗewarsu, Brooks ya yi aiki a matsayin ma'ajin darakta har zuwa 1923. 

 Aiki da rayuwa daga baya 
After graduation from Howard University with a B.A. degree in 1916, Brooks was qualified to teach at the high school level. She taught Spanish and English for six years at Washington D.C.'s Dunbar High School. Brooks went on to graduate study during summers at Columbia University in New York City and received her Master of Arts in 1928.

Brooks ta sadaukar da rayuwarta ga ilimi. Tun daga shekarar 1922, an ɗaukaka Brooks zuwa mataimakiyar shugaban makaranta a makarantar sakandare ta Dunbar. Brooks ta yi aiki a wannan matsayin na tsawon shekaru 26, har tsawon sauran rayuwarta. An kuma naɗa ta shugabar 'yan mata.

Brooks ya taimaka wa 'yan'uwa mata shida kai tsaye wajen samun ilimin kwaleji ta hanyar tallafi, kai su zuwa ga tarurruka na musamman, koyarwa idan ya zama dole, da kuma bayar da gudummawa ta kuɗi.

Ta kasance memba mai rijista a cikin babin Xi Omega na Alpha Kappa Alpha da aka kafa a Washington, DC, a 1923. Brooks ta rubuta tarihin farko na ƙungiyar 'yan gurguzu, wanda ta bayar a Boulé na 1923 a Baltimore, Maryland . A Ranar Masu Kafa Gidaje a Xi Omega a ranar 30 ga Janairu, 1924, an gabatar da tarihin a matsayin lacca. 

Brooks ya mutu a ranar 24 ga Nuwamba, 1948. 

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