Maudelle Bousfield

**Maudelle Tanner Bousfield** (née Brown ; 1 ga Yuni, 1885 - 14 ga Oktoba, 1971) malamar Amurka ce. Bousfield ita ce mace ta farko 'yar Afirka-Amurka da ta kammala karatunta daga Jami'ar Illinois, kuma shugabar makaranta ta farko 'yar Afirka-Amurka a cikin gundumar Makarantun Jama'a ta Chicago .

## Tarihin Rayuwa

### Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Bousfield **a Maudelle Tanner Brown** a St. Louis, Missouri . Iyayenta su ne Charles Hugh Brown da Arrena Isabella Tanner Brown, waɗanda dukkansu malamai ne.  Bousfield ta halarci Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Charles Kunkel da ke St. Louis a lokacin ƙuruciyarta. 

Bousfield ta yi rajista a Jami'ar Illinois a shekarar 1903. Ta kammala karatunta da girmamawa a shekarar 1906, tare da digiri a fannin ilmin taurari da lissafi, inda ta zama mace 'yar Afirka ta farko da ta kammala karatunta daga Jami'ar Illinois.  Bayan zamanta a Jami'ar Illinois, Bousfield ta yi kwasa-kwasan a Makarantar Kiɗa ta Chicago Mendelssohn,  kuma ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin ilimi a Jami'ar Chicago . 

### Sana'a

Bousfield ta buga piano  kuma ta koyar da lissafi kafin ta yi murabus na ɗan lokaci a 1914. Bousfield ta koma koyarwa a 1922, daga baya ta ɗauki jarrabawar shugaban makarantar a 1926. Bousfield ta sami maki mafi kyau a jarrabawar kuma aka tura ta shugabancin Makarantar Firamare ta Keith a 1927, ta zama shugabar makaranta ta farko 'yar Afirka-Amurka a gundumar Makarantun Jama'a ta Chicago . A 1939, Bousfield ta zama shugabar makarantar sakandare ta farko 'yar Afirka-Amurka a wannan gundumar,  bayan an tura ta shugabancin Makarantar Sakandare ta Wendell Phillips wacce galibi 'yar Afirka-Amurka ce a unguwar Bronzeville da ke birnin.  Baya ga zamanta na shugabar makaranta, Bousfield ta yi aiki a Kwamitin Manufofin Mata na Hukumar Kula da Ma'aikatan Yaƙi,  tare da Margaret A. Hickey da Sara Southall a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu .  Bousfield ya yi ritaya daga Makarantar Sakandare ta Wendell Phillips bayan shekaru goma sha ɗaya a shekarar 1950, tare da shirin yin tafiya: "Zan sami damar ganin wasu wurare masu nisa waɗanda suka sa atlases ya zama abin sha'awa a gare ni." 

### Shekarun da suka biyo baya da mutuwa
A shekarunta na ƙarshe, Bousfield ta yi tafiya,  ta yi aiki tare da Asusun Kwalejin United Negro, kuma ta koyar a Jami'ar Fisk .  Ta kuma rubuta wani shafi na lambu ga jaridar *Chicago Defender* . Bousfield ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar ƙasa da ƙasa ta shida (Babban Basileus) ta Alpha Kappa Alpha, ƙungiyar baƙar fata ta tarihi.  Ta kasance memba mai rijista na Ƙungiyar Mawakan Negro ta Ƙasa .  Bousfield ta mutu a ranar 14 ga Oktoba, 1971, tana da shekaru 86, a Chicago. 

## Rayuwar mutum da gado
Bousfield ta yi aure sau ɗaya kuma tana da 'ya mace. A shekarar 1914, ta auri likita, Midian Othello Bousfield, kuma tare suka haifi 'ya mace, Maudelle (an haife ta a 1915; an haife ta a 2013).  'Yar Bousfield ta auri ɗan kasuwa W. Leonard Evans Jr. Midian Bousfield ya mutu a 1948. Ɗan uwan Bousfield shine mai zane Henry Ossawa Tanner . A shekarar 2013, an sanya wa wani sabon zauren zama a Jami'ar Illinois suna Bousfield Hall, don tunawa da ita.   Hukumar Kula da Gidaje ta Chicago ce ke gudanar da Gidajen Maudelle Brown Bousfield. 

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