Evelyn Cunningham

**Evelyn Cunningham** (Janairu 25, 1916 &#x2013; Afrilu 28, 2010) 'yar jarida ce 'yar Amurka kuma mataimakiya ga Nelson Rockefeller .  Cunningham ta ba da rahoto game da farkon fafutukar kare hakkin jama'a kuma 'yar jarida ce kuma edita ga *Pittsburgh Courier* . Ita da ma'aikatan jaridar sun sami kyautar George Polk Award a shekarar 1998 saboda rahotannin da suka bayar. 

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Evelyn Cunningham Evelyn Elizabeth Long a birnin Elizabeth, North Carolina, ɗaya daga cikin 'ya'ya biyu na direban tasi da mai gyaran tufafi. Iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa birnin New York tun suna ƙarama; ta yi karatu a makarantun birni kuma ta kammala karatunta a Makarantar Sakandare ta Hunter College a shekarar 1934 da kuma daga Jami'ar Long Island a shekarar 1943, inda ta sami digirin farko. 

## Sana'a
Jaridar labarai ta baƙar fata mafi girma a lokacin,  *Pittsburgh Courier* ta kasance mai tasiri a lokacin da kuma shekarun da suka gabaci ƙungiyar kare haƙƙin jama'a. Cunningham ta shiga *Courier* a shekarar 1940  tana aiki daga ofishin Harlem da ke titin 125th. Ta sami laƙabin "edita na lynching" saboda yawan labaran da ta bayar game da lynching a kudu.  Yayin da take *Courier* ta yi ƙoƙarin yin hira da Bull Connor, a Birmingham, Alabama, amma ya musanta ta, da wata wariyar launin fata.  

Ta kuma haɗu da wasu shugabannin kare haƙƙin jama'a, ciki har da Martin Luther King Jr. da Malcolm X. Cunningham ta rubuta wani shiri mai sassa uku game da dangin Sarki daga waɗannan tarurrukan. Sau da yawa tana aiki tare da Thurgood Marshall, tana ba da labarin shari'o'in da ya kare. Wata rana da yamma, an kai hari a wani kulob da suke halarta bayan sa'o'i a Harlem. "[Ta] ta kai wa wani ɗan sanda da ta sani hari, tana gaya masa, "Ba za ka iya kama wannan mutumin ba. Yana da matuƙar muhimmanci, yana tare da NAACP, dole ne ka bar shi ya tafi." King, Devil in the Grove, shafi na 41.

Bayan ta bar *Courier* a shekarar 1962, Cunningham ta ɗauki nauyin wani shiri na rediyo na kanta a WLIB a New York. Daga nan ta haɗu da Nelson Rockefeller a shekarar 1965 a matsayin mataimakiya ta musamman ga gwamnan na wancan lokacin. Ta ci gaba da riƙe wannan muƙamin a Washington a lokacin mataimakinsa na shugaban ƙasa . Ta kuma yi aiki a ƙungiyar aiki ta Nixon kan Haƙƙoƙin Mata da Nauyinsu . 

A shekarar 1970, Cunningham ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa ƙungiyar New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women, wata ƙungiya mai zaman kanta da ta sadaukar da kanta don inganta rayuwar mata baƙaƙe "da iyalansu ta hanyar aiwatar da shirye-shirye da ayyuka don magance muhimman batutuwan zamantakewa, siyasa, tattalin arziki [da] al'adu." 

A shekarun 2000, Michael Bloomberg ya naɗa Cunningham a matsayin Kwamishinan Harkokin Mata na Birnin New York.

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Tana da tsayi—kusan ƙafa shida a diddige—kuma tana da jajayen gashi, ana kiran Cunningham da "Babban Gabas," yana nufin tsayinta da kuma asalinta a birnin New York . Mace mai himma wacce ta taɓa bayyana ra'ayinta cewa "aure ba shi da kyau ga mace mai aiki",  duk da haka ta yi aure sau huɗu.  Aurenta na ƙarshe shine Austin H. Brown, wanda ya mutu a shekara ta 2003. Mai buga piano wanda aka horar da Juilliard, shi ne kuma ƙwararren mai yin agogo na farko ɗan Afirka-Amurka a Gundumar Diamond ta New York. 

Tana da ɗan'uwa ɗaya, Clyde Whitehurst Long, wanda ya mutu a shekarar 1973, ya bar 'ya mace ɗaya, wadda Evelyn ta rene ta. Ta kuma haifi 'ya'ya mata biyu na miji daga auren Austin na baya, wanda kuma ya ba ta jikoki biyu.

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