Henry Lee Moon

**Henry Lee Moon** (1901 - Yuni 7, 1985) ɗan jaridar Ba'amurke ne, marubuci kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin jama'a. Ya yi aiki ga *The Amsterdam News* da NAACP.

## Rayuwar farko da aiki
An haifi Moon a Pendleton, South Carolina  a cikin 1901. Ya shafe yawancin rayuwarsa a Cleveland, Ohio. Mahaifinsa Roddy K. Moon ya kafa reshen Cleveland na NAACP a cikin 1912.

Moon ya halarci Jami'ar Howard inda ya yi aiki a matsayin editan *Jarida na Jami'ar* makarantar. Sannan ya sami digiri na biyu a aikin jarida daga Jami'ar Jihar Ohio . Burin Moon a lokacin shi ne ya zama bakar fata na farko dan jarida da ya yi aiki a wata jarida mallakar farar fata. Duk da haka, a 1925 ya tafi aiki a cikin hulda da jama'a a Tuskegee Institute maimakon. 

A cikin 1931, ya cimma burinsa na zama ɗan jarida lokacin da aka ba shi aiki a mako-mako na Ba-Amurke *[[New York Amsterdam News|The Amsterdam News]]* . Ya koma birnin New York kuma ya fara rubuta bitar littattafai da kasidu don bugawa. A wannan shekarar, ya yi aiki tare da ɗan jarida Ted Poston ɗan *jaridar* kan jerin labaran da ke mai da hankali kan manyan laifuka. Mutanen biyu sun zama abokan zama kuma sun kasance aminan juna har tsawon rayuwarsu.  A cikin 1932, sun yi tafiya zuwa Tarayyar Soviet tare da Langston Hughes da matar Moon a nan gaba Mollie Lewis don yin fim ɗin hana rarrabuwa mai suna *Black and White* . An soke fim ɗin a minti na ƙarshe ta ɗakin studio na Mezhrabpomfilm, wanda ya haifar da Moon ya kasance cikin rudani na tsawon rayuwa tare da 'yan gurguzu. Ba tare da sanin wata ba, Injiniya Hugh Lincoln Cooper ya yi barazanar dakatar da aiki kan babban madatsar ruwan Dnieper idan gwamnatin Soviet ba ta dakatar da shirya fim din ba, wanda ya ke kallonsa a matsayin ba-Amurke ba. 

Bayan ya koma Amurka, Moon ya sami aiki tare da Hukumar Ayyukan Jama'a a karkashin Harold L. Ickes kuma ya ci gaba da rubutawa *The Amsterdam News* . An kori Moon daga takardar bayan da ya ƙarfafa ma'aikatan su shiga ƙungiyar Guild Newspaper . Daga nan sai ya tafi aiki don aikin Marubuta na Tarayya har sai da tallafin tarayya ya ƙare a 1939. Moon ya nemi *New York Times*, amma an ƙi. Ya sami aiki a Washington, DC, yana aiki da Robert C. Weaver akan Black Cabinet na Franklin D. Roosevelt a matsayin mai ba da shawara kan dangantakar tsere. Bayan yakin, ya yi aiki a matsayin mai shiryawa na PAC na kungiyar kwadago ta CIO. 

A cikin 1948, Moon ya fara aiki da NAACP a matsayin darektan hulda da jama'a. Moon ya rike mukamin har zuwa 1974. A lokacin da yake rike da mukamin NAACP, ya karfafa ‘yancin kada kuri’a tare da karfafa gwiwar kungiyar da ta kara himma wajen zabar ‘yan siyasa masu mu’amala da su. Yayin da yake NAACP, ya kuma rubuta littafin *Balance of Power* kuma ya gyara tarin rubuce-rubucen WEB Du Bois . 

## Mutuwa da gado
Moon ya mutu a ranar 7 ga Yuni, 1985, a asibitin Mount Sinai a birnin New York, New York .  A cikin 1988, ɗakin karatu a hedkwatar NAACP a Baltimore an sake masa suna don ƙwaƙwalwarsa. 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Moon ya auri Mollie Lewis a ranar 13 ga Agusta, 1938. Ma'auratan sun shahara don jefa ƙungiyoyin jama'a da suka haɗa da baƙar fata da fararen New York don saduwa da juna. Sunan su ya cika a cikin littafin Chester Himes '1961 *Pinktoes.* 

## Ayyuka

* *Ma'auni na Ƙarfi na 1948: Zaɓen Negro* ( kwana biyu )
* 1957 *Sabuwar Rushewar Kwaskwarima ta Goma Sha Biyar* (Jami'ar Howard)
* 1972 *Tunani mai tasowa na WEB DuBois*, edita ( Simon &amp;amp; Schuster )

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