Colia Clark

**Colia L. Liddell Lafayette Clark** (Yuli 21, 1940 - Nuwamba 4, 2022) ɗan gwagwarmayar Amurka ne kuma ɗan siyasa.  Clark shi ne dan takarar jam'iyyar Green Party a Majalisar Dattawan Amurka a New York a 2010 da 2012 .  

Clark ya kasance tsohon soja na kare hakkin bil'adama, ikon baƙar fata, da ƙungiyoyin Afirka. Ta kasance sakatariyar filin kwamitin kula da dalibai kuma ta taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kafa daidaitattun 'Yancin jefa kuri'a a Selma, Alabama . Ta kuma kasance mai shirya tare da yakin Birmingham, da kuma ko'ina cikin Mississippi. Ayyukanta sun haɗa da gwagwarmaya a fannonin kare hakkin mata da haƙƙin ma'aikata, da gwagwa da kuma bayar da shawarwari ga marasa gida da matasa. Ta yi aiki tare da Cynthia McKinney don yakin neman zabe na shugaban kasa, tare da "Power to the People". Clark ya kasance memba na Jam'iyyar Reconstruction (Amurka), kuma ya kasance shugaban Grandmothers for the Release of Mumia Abu-Jamal .

## 'Yancin jama'a
Clark daliba ce a Kwalejin Tougaloo, kwalejin baƙar fata na tarihi a Tougaloo، Mississippi, lokacin da ta shiga cikin ƙungiyar kare hakkin bil'adama. Mai fafutuka tare da NAACP, ta shiga cikin kokarin rajistar masu jefa kuri'a. A karkashin jagorancin Medgar Evers da John Salter, Clark ya kafa Majalisar Matasa ta NAACP a Arewacin Jackson, Mississippi.

Yayinda take aiki tare da NAACP, ta zama mataimaki ta musamman ga Medgar Evers, Sakataren filin NAACP. A shekara ta 1962 Clark ta yi murabus daga NAACP kuma ta shiga Kwamitin Gudanar da Dalibai (SNCC) don yin aikin rajistar masu jefa kuri'a tare da mijinta na lokacin, Bernard Lafayette, a Alabama. Wannan aikin ya kafa muhimmiyar tushe don yakin neman 'yancin jefa kuri'a na Selma na 1965. Daga bisani aka nada ta babban sakataren SNCC .  Ta kuma shiga cikin zanga-zangar tituna kuma ta fuskanci zalunci na 'yan sanda a Yaƙin neman zaɓe na Birmingham na 1963.

A shekara ta 1964, ta taimaka wajen gano Kwamitin Shirye-shiryen Kudancin a Jami'ar Fisk .  Ta kasance mai shirya a cikin ƙungiyar Black Power, gami da Jamhuriyar New Afrika .  A farkon 1973, ta koma Mississippi kuma ta yi aiki a kan wasu ayyukan da suka hada da editan Jackson Advocate . 

Clark ya soki hanyar da aka nuna yunkurin kare hakkin bil'adama a cikin shahararrun kafofin watsa labarai, musamman a cikin fim din *Selma*, yana jayayya cewa yana raina aikin ɗalibai kuma ba ya yin komai don magance gadon rashin daidaito. Ta kasance mai goyon bayan murya na ƙungiyar Black Lives Matter, tana ganinta (tare da ƙungiyar Black Power) a matsayin magaji ga ƙungiyar kare hakkin bil'adama.

## Green Party
Clark ta kasance co-shugaban tawagar New York a taron Green Party na zaben shugaban kasa na Amurka, inda aka zabi Cynthia McKinney a matsayin dan takarar shugaban kasa na Green Party. A cikin shekarunta na ƙarshe Clark ta mayar da hankali kan rubuce-rubuce, gwagwarmaya da kuma bayar da shawarwari game da Haiti.

## Ilimi
Clark ta halarci Kwalejin Tougaloo kuma ta sami MA daga Jami'ar Jihar Albany da ke Albany, GA, inda daga baya ta yi aiki a matsayin farfesa. Ta kuma kasance farfesa a SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 

## Rayuwa da mutuwar sa
Clark ya mutu a ranar 4 ga Nuwamba, 2022, yana da shekaru 82.

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