Amanda L. Aikens

**Amanda L. Aikens** (née, **Barnes**; Mayu 12, 1833 - Mayu 20, 1892) edita ce ta Amurka kuma mai ba da agaji. A lokacin Yaƙin basasar Amurka, ta kasance daya daga cikin sanannun ma'aikatan mata, kuma ta hanyar roƙon jama'a ne aka tayar da batun Gidajen sojoji na kasa. Ta tara kudi a Wisconsin don Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Johns Hopkins a Baltimore don manufar shigar da mata daidai da maza. Ta yi sha'awar duk aikin sadaka da ilimi a jiharta. Aikens ta taimaka wajen kafa Makarantar Masana'antu ta Wisconsin don 'yan mata, kuma ta kasance memba na Humane Society, Kungiyar Mata, da Athenaeum .  A shekara ta 1887, ta fara gyara sashin "Woman's World" a cikin Evening Wisconsin .

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Amanda Lovina Barnes  a Arewacin Adams, Massachusetts, a ranar 12 ga Mayu, 1833. Mahaifinta Asahel Richardson Barnes ne . Sunan mahaifiyarta shine Mary Whitcomb Slocum . Aikens ya girma ne a ƙarƙashin tasirin addini mai zurfi. Yawancin karatunta an karɓa ne a Cibiyar Maplewood, Pittsfield, Massachusetts . 

## Ayyuka
Ta auri Andrew Jackson Aikens, Janairu 4, 1854. Sun zauna a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, inda shekaru da yawa, ta kasance jagora a cikin ayyukan agaji na gida, aikin coci da ƙoƙarin ci gaban ilimi na mata. Suna da 'ya'ya hudu, ciki har da Mary Lydia Aikens, da Stella Cramer,  mawaki. 

A watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1887, Aikens ta fara gyara "The Woman's World", wani sashen na musamman na The Evening Wisconsin, wanda mijinta yana daya daga cikin masu mallakar, wanda aka buga a Milwaukee. Har zuwa wannan lokacin, an fi saninta da sha'awarta, da kuma kusanci da, al'ummomi masu alheri da yawa. Ta kasance a wani lokaci shugaban kwamitin agaji da gyare-gyare na gida, shekaru biyu shugaban kungiyar mata ta Milwaukee, shekaru biyu shugabar kwamitin fasaha, kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban makarantar masana'antu ta Wisconsin don 'yan mata, kuma shekaru goma shugaban kwamitin zartarwa.

A lokacin yakin basasar Amurka, ta yi kira ga jama'a da sanarwar ta hanyar manema labarai lokacin da aka tayar da batun Gidan Sojojin Kasa. A cikin *Tarihin Milwaukee*, wanda aka buga a 1881, akwai dogon labarin aikinta na taimakawa wadanda suka ji rauni a lokacin yakin basasa. 

Aikens ya yi tafiya sosai a Turai, kuma ya buga wasiƙun jarida na sukar fasaha. Ta tara kudi a Wisconsin don Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Johns Hopkins a Baltimore, don manufar shigar da mata daidai da maza. Ta taimaka wajen shirya kungiyar Jamhuriyar Jamhuriyan Mata ta farko ta Wisconsin,  kuma ta kasance wakilin Jiha a Taron Kasa na Ayyuka na Taimako lokacin da ta hadu a Baltimore. A shekara ta 1891, ta karanta takarda a gaban Taron Ayyukan Taimako na Jiha a Madison, Wisconsin . 

Aikens yana da alaƙa da gabatar da dafa abinci a makarantun jama'a na Milwaukee. Shekaru 15, ta kasance jami'i ko darakta tare da Art Science Class,  ƙungiyar adabi tare da manufar haɓaka ɗanɗano a cikin gine-gine, zane, zane-zane, da kimiyya. Mata ɗari da hamsin sun kasance cikin wannan aji.

## Mutuwa
Aikens ta kamu da mura a watan Janairun 1892, amma kodayake ba ta da lafiya a gado, ta ci gaba da gudanar da sashen edita har zuwa makonni uku kafin mutuwarta. Ta mutu a gidanta a Milwaukee, ranar 20 ga Mayu, 1892,  bayan dogon rashin lafiya.

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## Haɗin waje

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