Bernard Lafayette

**Bernard **LaFayette**** (ko LaFayette) **Jr.** (/læfiˈɛt/; an haife shi a ranar 29 ga watan Yulin shekara ta 1940) ɗan gwagwarmayar kare hakkin bil'adama ne kuma mai shirya kuma Ministan Baptist, wanda ya kasance jagora a cikin Ƙungiyar Kare Hakkin Bil'adama . Ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a farkon shirya Selma Voting Rights Movement; ya kasance memba na Nashville Student Movement; kuma ya yi aiki a hankali a cikin shekarun 1960 tare da kungiyoyi kamar Kwamitin Gudanar da Dalibai (SNCC), Kudancin Kudancin Kirista (SCLC), da Kwamitin Sabis na Abokai na Amurka.

## Yaronta
An haifi Lafayette kuma ta girma a Tampa, Florida . Iyayensa sune Bernard Lafayette Sr. da Verdell Lafayette . Bernard shine babba cikin yara takwas. 'Yan uwansa sune Harold Rozelia, Brenda, Geri, Michael, da Victoria. Lafayette ya shafe yawancin lokacin yaro a Tampa. Iyalinsa sun girma matalauta, don haka Bernard ya fara aiki don samun karin kudin shiga tun yana da shekaru 11. Ayyukansa sun haɗa da cajiering, yankan nama, isar da kayan, da tattara canji a shagon kofi. Lokacin da yake tunawa da yarinta, Bernard ya ce: "Dole ne in girma da sauri. A wasu kalmomi, ban yi yarinta ba. "

Duk da kasancewa Black a kudu, Lafayette ya ce da farko ya halarci makarantar firamare, kuma daga ƙarshe ya fara zuwa makarantun da har yanzu suna da bambanci. Yayinda yake a makarantar hadin gwiwa ya ce "ko da yake ba a ware shi ba, har yanzu ina iya ganin bambancin da ke tsakanin duniyoyi biyu. "  Bernard yana da kyakkyawar tunawa da wasu wariyar launin fata da ya fuskanta tun yana ƙarami. Lokacin da Bernard yake dan shekara bakwai, yana kan hanyar zuwa gari tare da kakarsa, Ma Foster, don haka suka yanke shawarar kama motar kebul. Ɗaya daga cikin dokokin rarrabewa game da motocin kebul shine cewa baƙar fata za su biya a ƙofar gaba, sannan su shiga ta ƙofar baya. Lokacin da kakarsa ta biya direban motar kebul, direban ya fara tuki kafin kowanne daga cikinsu ya shiga, ya kwashe kuɗin su ya bar su a cikin aljihu. Lafayette ya ce wannan yana daya daga cikin lokuta na farko inda ya fahimci cewa yana so ya yi wani abu game da yadda ake bi da 'yan Afirka na Afirka.

## Rayuwar manya da aiki
Bernard ya auri Kate Bulls Lafayette a shekarar 1969. Yana da 'ya'ya biyu tare da matarsa ta baya Colia Liddell Lafayette: Bernard Lafayette III da James Lafayette Sr. A cewar' ya'yansa, Bernard uba ne mai ƙauna, wanda bai taɓa ihu ba, yana da tsananin fushi, ko ma ya nuna fushin ga matarsa ko yaransa. Iyalin suna da dangantaka mai zurfi, kuma sun kwashe lokaci tare. James ya zama mai wa'azi (wanda mahaifinsa, wanda ya kasance mai addini ya rinjaye shi), kuma Lafayette III ya halarci Kwalejin Baptist ta Amurka.

## Rayuwa bayan Selma
Lafayette ya ci gaba da aiki a kan 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement (ya yi aiki a Chicago a baya tare da Kale Williams, Bill Moyer, David Jehnsen da sauran shugabannin Kwamitin Sabis na Abokai na Amurka). Daga baya ya zama Ministan Baptist kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban American Baptist Theological Seminary . 

A shekara ta 1973, an nada Lafayette darektan farko na Shirin Ilimi na Zaman Lafiya a Kwalejin Gustavus Adolphus, Saint Peter, Minnesota. Shirin Gustavus ya ba Lafayette damar shigar da dukkan tsarin karatun kwalejin tare da ilimin zaman lafiya. Lafayette ya yi aiki a wannan kwalejin zane-zane na Lutheran kusan kusan shekaru uku. Ya kuma kasance shugaban makarantar digiri a Jami'ar Jihar Alabama . 

An gane Lafayette a matsayin babban iko a kan dabarun canjin zamantakewa ba tare da tashin hankali ba. An kuma san shi a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan masu gabatar da ayyukan kai tsaye a duniya.

Ya kasance Babban Fellow a Jami'ar Rhode Island,  inda ya taimaka wajen kafa Cibiyar Nonviolence da Nazarin Zaman Lafiya. Cibiyar tana inganta ilimin rashin tashin hankali ta amfani da tsarin karatun da ya danganci ka'idoji da hanyoyin Martin Luther King Jr. Ya kasance Babban Masanin Malami a Makarantar tauhidin Candler, a Jami'ar Emory da ke Atlanta, Jojiya .  A halin yanzu yana aiki a matsayin malami a Cibiyar Caroline Marshall Draughon don Fasaha da Humanities a Kwalejin Fasaha ta Liberal a Jami'ar Auburn . 

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