Ƙungiyar Mata ta Mount Vernon

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union (**MVLA**) kungiya ce mai zaman kanta wacce ke kiyayewa da kuma kula da gidan Mount Vernon wanda asalin mallakar iyalin George Washington ne. Ann Pamela Cunningham ta Kudu Carolina ce ta kafa kungiyar a shekara ta 1853, kuma ita ce mafi tsufa a kungiyar kiyaye tarihin kasa da kuma tsohuwar ƙungiyar mata masu kishin kasa, a Amurka.

Cunningham ya nada mataimakan 30 a kasar, tare da mace daya a kowace jiha, wadanda tare suka tara $ 200,000 don sayen dukiyar (daidai da dala miliyan 4.1 a cikin dala na 2003).  MVLA ta karɓi aikin gidan Mount Vernon a ranar 22 ga Fabrairu, 1860, kuma ta buɗe shafin a matsayin gidan kayan gargajiya. Ta hanyar adana alamar ƙasa ta tarihi, Ƙungiyar Mata ta Mount Vernon tana fatan wucewa ko "warkar" rarrabuwar sassan da ke zurfafawa kan batun bautar a Amurka. A lokacin Yaƙin basasar Amurka, an dakatar da kokarin dawo da MVLA, amma an sake dawowa a 1866.&nbsp;

A yau, MVLA ta ci gaba da aikinta na asali, ta dogara ne kawai da gudummawar masu zaman kansu, kuma kwamitin masu mulki wanda ya kunshi mata daga jihohi 27 ne ke kula da ita.

## Tarihi
Bayan mutuwar George Washington a cikin 1799 da gwauruwarsa Marta a cikin 1802, Mount Vernon ya kasance a cikin iyalin Washington na ƙarni uku. John Augustine Washington III,  babban jikan George Washington, daga ƙarshe ya gaji dukiyar, amma bai iya kula da ita ba.  A tsakiyar shekarun 1800, mashahurin Mansion House Farm ya fadi cikin lalacewa. A shekara ta 1853, ya ba da shawarar sayar da dukiyar ga Commonwealth na Virginia, wanda ya ki saboda farashin da ake nema ya yi yawa. John Augustine Washington ya kuma ba da shawarar sayar da Dutsen Vernon ga gwamnatin tarayya, amma manyan mambobin Majalisa sun yi jayayya cewa bai kamata gwamnati ta kasance da alhakin adana kowane shafin tarihi ba.

 A cewar sanannen labari, a cikin wata rana a shekara ta 1853, Louisa Bird Cunningham tana hawa Jirgin ruwa a kan Kogin Potomac, lokacin da kyaftin din jirgin ya yi busa ƙaho yayin da suka wuce Dutsen Vernon.[1] Cunningham, uwargidan Rosemont Plantation a Kudancin Carolina, ta firgita da ganin mummunan yanayin gidan Washington.[2] Marubucin Gerald W. Johnson daga baya ya bayyana abin da ta gani:￼

 Fintin yana cirewa daga bangon, rufin yana raguwa, aƙalla ɗaya daga cikin manyan ginshiƙai a gaba ya rushe kuma an maye gurbinsa da ƙananan, ciyawa tana da tsayi a cikin ciyawa. Hoton sakaci ne, lalacewa, da lalacewa, kuma fasinja ba zai iya samun shi daga hankalinta ba. 

Cunningham yana da ra'ayin cewa ya kamata a gyara shafin kuma a kiyaye shi a matsayin "shrine" na kasa.  Kashegari, Louisa ta rubuta wa 'yarta, Ann Pamela Cunningham.  A cewar MVLA, ta ce:Idan maza na Amurka sun ga ya dace ya bar gidan jarumin da aka fi girmamawa ya lalace, me ya sa matan Amurka ba za su iya haɗuwa tare don ceton shi ba?Ann Pamela Cunningham, mai shekaru 37, ta yi matukar farin ciki da kalaman mahaifiyarta, ta yanke shawarar daukar matakin ceto da kuma dawo da Mount Vernon.[1] Ƙaramar Cunningham, wacce ke fama da ciwon da ya daɗe sakamakon hatsarin hawan dawaki, ta yi watsi da shawarar abokai da sauran dangi wadanda suka fara kokarin hana ta yin hakan saboda rashin lafiyarta.[2]

## Farawar kamfen ɗin tara kuɗi

Da farko, Ann Pamela Cunningham ta mayar da hankali ga kokarin da ta yi na tattara mata daga Kudancin Amurka don tara kudade don ceton Dutsen Vernon. Abinda ya fi damuwa shi ne cewa "masu jari-hujja na Arewa" da masu hasashe na iya shiga tsakani don siyan Dutsen Vernon kuma su juya shi zuwa wurin shakatawa na otal.

A ranar 2 ga Disamba, 1853, Cunningham ya rubuta wasika mai taken "Kararri ga Mata na Kudu" ta amfani da sunan-de-plume "A Southern Matron".    An fara buga wasikar a cikin *Charleston Mercury* kuma daga baya ya bayyana a wasu jaridu. A cikin wasikar, ta bukaci wasu matan Kudancin da su shiga tare da ita wajen kare "tsarki" na Dutsen Vernon daga lalata da 'yan kasuwa masu haɗama da masu cin hanci da rashawa. Tattaunawar ta cewa ya kamata mata masu kirki, masu kishin kasa na jamhuriya su dauki mataki don kare alamar ƙasa ta kasance mai ƙarfin zuciya musamman saboda ka'idodin zamantakewa na lokacin, wanda "ya yi la'akari da cewa bai dace da mace ta shiga cikin al'amuran jama'a ba".[it]

Cunningham kuma ya rubuta wa Eleanor Washington don ƙoƙarin shawo kan mijinta ya dakatar da sayar da Dutsen Vernon har sai "mata na Kudancin" suka tara kudaden da ake buƙata, wanda suke fatan mikawa ga gwamnan Virginia don sayen dukiyar.

A ranar 22 ga Fabrairu, 1854, taron tara kudade na farko na jama'a ya faru a Kudancin Carolina a gidan Cunningham, inda ya tara $ 293.75. A ranar 12 ga Yuli, 1854, wani taro na biyu don tattauna game da kafa wata ƙungiya ya faru a Richmond, Virginia, wanda mata 30 da maza da yawa suka halarta ciki har da Gwamna Joseph Johnson .  Ƙarin aikin tara kuɗi ya faru a Georgia da Alabama.

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