Ann Nixon Cooper

Ann Louise Nixon Cooper (9 ga Janairu, 1902 - 21 ga Disamba, 2009) ta kasance Ba’amurkiya mai shekaru 100 da aka fi sani da an kira ta a jawabin zaɓen shugaban Amurka mai jiran gado Barack Obama a watan Nuwamba na 2008 a matsayin wacce ta shaida "gwagwarmayar da ci gaban" ƙarni da ya gabata, kuma a matsayinta na mai wakiltar canjin matsayi da Ba’amurkiya da mata suka cimma a Amurka. Kafin haka, ta kasance memba a cikin al'ummar Ba’amurkiya da ke Atlanta kuma mai fafutukar kare haƙƙin jama'a .

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haifi Cooper a Shelbyville, Tennessee, a ranar 9 ga Janairu, 1902, kuma ta girma a Nashville .  name="AJC"> Ta koma Atlanta, Georgia, tana da shekaru ashirin tare da mijinta, Albert Berry Cooper, likitan hakora,  name="AJC"  kuma suna da 'ya'ya huɗu tare.  name="Ann Cooper Biography"> A wannan lokacin, ta yi aiki fiye da shekaru hamsin a cikin aikin jama'a a hukumar Gate City Nursery Association kuma ta taimaka wajen kafa ƙungiyar 'Yan Mata don Matasan Baƙar fata.  Saboda babu sojojin Boy Scout da aka haɗa a Atlanta a shekarun 1930, ta rubuta wa Boy Scouts a New York don neman taimako wajen kafa Troop 95, rundunar Boy Scout ta farko a Atlanta ga Baƙar fata Amurkawa.  Lokacin da mijinta ya mutu, Martin Luther King Jr. ya aika wa Cooper waya; ta kuma haɗu da Coretta Scott King kuma ta adana hotunan bikin.  Cooper ta fara yin rijista don kaɗa ƙuri'a a ranar 1 ga Satumba, 1941. Duk da cewa ta kasance abokiyar manyan 'yan Atlanta kamar W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope Franklin da Benjamin Mays, ba ta yi amfani da 'yancinta na kaɗa ƙuri'a ba tsawon shekaru, saboda matsayinta na baƙar fata a cikin al'umma mai ra'ayin wariya da nuna wariya ga mata . 

A shekarun 1970, ta yi aiki a matsayin mai koyarwa ga waɗanda ba sa karatu a Cocin Ebenezer Baptist . Ta kuma yi aiki a Hukumar Aminan Laburare, inda a wani lokaci ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar shugaban hukumar. A shekarar 1980, ta sami lambar yabo ta hidimar al'umma daga Channel 11 saboda kasancewarta ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka shirya ƙungiyar baƙar fata ta Cub Scouts kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin uwa ta farko a gidan yari tsawon shekaru uku da rabi.

An kuma ba ta lambar yabo ta Annie L. McPheeters Medallion saboda hidimar al'umma daga ɗakin karatu na Auburn Avenue kan Al'adu da Tarihin Baƙar fata na Amurka a shekarar 2002. name="Ann Cooper Biography">"Ann Cooper Biography". The History Makers. Archived from the original on December 11, 2008. Retrieved November 6, 2008.

Jikanta Lawrence D. Bobo, Farfesa Du Bois na WEB na Kimiyyar Zamani kuma Shugaban Kimiyyar Zamani a Jami'ar Harvard . 

 Matsalar shekaru 
Lokacin da aka nuna shi a jawabin Obama na 2008, Cooper tana da shekaru 106. Wasu kafafen yada labarai sun ba da rahoton cewa ta kasance "mafi tsufa a zaɓe"  duk da cewa akwai tsofaffin masu zaɓe da yawa, ciki har da Gertrude Baines mai shekaru 114 a lokacin, Beatrice Farve mai shekaru 113, Maggie Renfro mai shekaru 112 da George Francis, Virginia Call mai shekaru 110 da Onie Ponder, da kuma Nettie Whittington da Amanda Jones masu shekaru 109 (duk sun kaɗa ƙuri'a ga Obama); da kuma Eunice Sanborn mai shekaru 112, Besse Cooper, da Walter Breuning (duk sun nuna cewa sun kaɗa ƙuri'a ga McCain) da kuma Gertrude Noone mai shekaru 109 (wadda ta kaɗa ƙuri'a ga McCain). [ <span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2026)">ana buƙatar ambato</span> ]

Cooper ta mutu a ranar 21 ga Disamba, 2009, makonni uku kafin ranar haihuwarta ta 108.

Binciken ƙidayar jama'a ya nuna cewa wataƙila ta yi shekara ɗaya da haihuwa fiye da yadda aka yi iƙirarin; ƙidayar jama'a ta Amurka ta 1910 ta lissafa ta a matsayin shekara bakwai a watan Afrilun 1910. Idan aka yi la'akari da ranar haihuwarta a watan Janairu, wannan yana nuna cewa an haife ta a 1903.

 Duba kuma 

 Virginia McLaurin

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 2009
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1902