Fay Bellamy Powell

**Fay D. Bellamy Powell** (1 ga Mayu, 1938 - 5 ga Janairu, 2013) ya kasance dan gwagwarmayar kare hakkin bil'adama na Afirka.

An san ta da shiga cikin kungiyoyi da yawa da ke bin diddigin ƙungiyoyin kare hakkin bil'adama, Bellamy Powell ta fara aikinta a cikin Sojojin Sama na Amurka. Bayan ta yi aiki tare da Sojojin Sama, ta karɓi matsayi tare da Kwamitin Gudanar da Dalibai a cikin 1965.

Bellamy Powell ta yi aiki tare da SNCC na shekaru da yawa, tana aiki tsakanin abokan aikinta a kan gaba na ƙungiyar kare hakkin bil'adama. Daga baya ta ci gaba da aiki a kan ma'aikatan Cibiyar Black World, kuma ta taimaka wajen gano Cibiyar Tsayayya da Klan ta Kasa da kuma Asusun Za Mu Kashe.

Bayan dogon rayuwa a matsayin mai fafutuka mai tasiri, Fay D. Bellamy Powell ya mutu yana da shekaru 74, a ranar 5 ga Janairu, 2013.

## Shekaru na farko
An haife shi a Clairton, Pennsylvania, Fay Bellamy ya girma a wani gari na ƙarfe na Amurka a Yammacin Pennsylvania . Mahaifiyarta ta mutu lokacin da take 'yar shekara hudu, kuma mahaifinta ya yi aiki a soja. Don haka, ta girma ne da farko ta hanyar dangi mai yawa: 'yan uwan mahaifiyarta da iyalansu. Mary, Clara Fordham da Clyde, musamman, sune masu kula da ita.

A duk lokacin yarinta, Bellamy ta halarci cocin Mount Olive Baptist . Yayinda take halarta, ta shiga cikin ƙananan mawaƙa da tarurrukan addu'a na mako-mako. Lokacin da ta cika shekaru 16, Bellamy ta yanke shawarar cewa kodayake tana girmamawa da godiya ga ra'ayin addini, ba nata ba ce.

Bellamy ta halarci makarantar unguwa, daga makarantar sakandare har zuwa makarantar sakandare duk a cikin gari ɗaya. Ba har sai da ta kammala makarantar sakandare ba ne Bellamy ta bar garinsu na Clairton.

Bayan makarantar sakandare, Bellamy ya shiga rundunar sojin saman Amurka. Ta sami horo na asali a Lackland Air Force Base a Texas. Daga can, ta tafi McGuire Air Force Base, inda aka ajiye ta a New Jersey. A nan, ta yi aiki a Fort Dix, a yankin asibiti.

Bayan lokacin da ta kasance a cikin Sojojin Sama, Bellamy ta koma ko'ina cikin Amurka, daga Florida zuwa Birnin New York zuwa San Francisco, kafin ta zauna a Alabama.

## Shekaru na baya
A shekara ta 1965, Bellamy Powell ya karbi matsayi yana aiki tare da Kwamitin Gudanar da Dalibai. Ta jagoranci ofishin Selma, Alabama na SNCC na shekaru da yawa, tana aiki a wurare da yawa. A cikin Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC,  ta rubuta game da lokacinta a SNCC, "Nan da nan na zama dukkan ma'aikatan ofishin: manajan, sakatare, mai karɓar bakuncin, da kuma mai buga takardu, da kuma kwararren kafofin watsa labarai. "

Shugabar mai aiki, Bellamy Powell ta yi imanin cewa ya kamata ta yi kasa da abin da ta roƙe wa wasu, tana mai cewa, "Ba na neman ƙarin haɗari, amma da gaske na yi imanin gore bai kamata in yi kasa da yadda zan nemi wasu su yi ba. "  Saboda haka, sau da yawa tana aiki a fagen tsakanin abokan aikinta, tana shiga cikin kokarin shirya haƙƙin jama'a a Greene County, Alabama.

Wani muhimmin bangare na rayuwar Bellamy Powell, Kwamitin hadin gwiwar dalibai ya zama daya daga cikin manyan kungiyoyi a gwagwarmayar 'yancin baƙar fata. A zahiri, ta kasance wani ɓangare na kwamitin a lokacin shahararren Selma zuwa Montgomery a shekarar 1965. Kodayake Bellamy Powell ta kasance muhimmiyar mamba a matsayi da yawa a lokacin da take tare da SNCC, ana tunawa da ita don kiyaye hangen nesa na Black a matsayin babban ɓangare na tarurruka, koyaushe tana amfani da iliminta da gogewa don ci gaba da kungiyar a cikin hanyar lafiya da tasiri.

Biye da sawun aikinta tare da SNCC, Bellamy Powell ta ba da gudummawa da yawa ga ƙungiyar kare hakkin bil'adama. Daga baya ta yi aiki a cikin ma'aikatan Cibiyar Black World,  ƙungiyar mutane da suka himmatu ga ƙarfafa ikon al'ummomin Black a Amurka don bunƙasa a cikin al'umma.

A matsayin ci gaba da sa hannu a cikin karfafawa 'yan Afirka na Afirka, Bellamy Powell ta taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kafa kungiyoyi da yawa: Cibiyar Tsayayya da Klan ta Kasa, da Asusun Za Mu Kashe.  An kafa ƙarshen don haɓaka ƙoƙarin ƙauyuka a cikin al'ummomin Afirka na Amirka don magance rashin adalci. Yin aiki tare da Highlander Folk School, Bellamy Powell ya yi aiki a kan kwamitin We Shall Overcome Fund a cibiyar jagoranci da horo ta zamantakewa sama da shekaru 50.

An san shi a tsakanin wadanda ke kusa da ita a matsayin mai fafutuka, Bellamy Powell ana tunawa da shi a matsayin mai daukar hoto mai ƙarfi. Wani abokin aiki a makarantar Highlander Folk School, Kristi Coleman, ya tuna da gamuwa da daya daga cikin hotunan ta, "Wannan shi ne abin da muke ciki. Ban ma san cewa tana daukar hoton ba. Hotunan ta kalmomi ne. "  Tare da kyakkyawar fahimta, hotunan ta, kamar hikimar ta, sun ɗauki muryarta tare da su.

"Dole ne ku kasance a buɗe don jin wasu mutane," Bellamy ya gaya wa Voices Across the Color Line Oral History Project ta Cibiyar Bincike ta Kenan a Cibiyar Tarihin Atlanta. "Idan ba haka ba, abin da kake ciki ba kome ba ne. Kai game da kanka ne, wanda ba abin da motsi yake ba. " Bellamy Powell ta rayu rayuwarta ga wasu, ta shiga tare da kuma karfafa mutane a duk rayuwarta. 

## Mutuwa da jana'izar
'Yancin bil'adama da dukan ƙungiyar Adalci na zamantakewa sun rasa babban jagora lokacin da Fay Bellamy Powell ta mutu a ranar 5 ga Janairu, 2013. An gudanar da hidimar tunawa bayan 'yan kwanaki ta gidan jana'izar Murray Brothers a Atlanta, Jojiya. Halin da take da shi da kuma halin da ba shi da hankali ya sami mabiyanta da yawa, yayin da ikonta na sauraro ya sami abokai da yawa. Mutuwarta asarar ce da mutane da yawa suka ji, a cikin shekarun da suka gabata.

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