Xernona Clayton

**Xernona Clayton Brady** (an haife **ta** a ranar 30 ga Agusta, 1930) shugabar kare haƙƙin jama'a ce ta Amurka kuma babbar jami'ar watsa shirye-shirye . A lokacin ƙungiyar kare haƙƙin jama'a, ta yi aiki a ƙungiyar National Urban League da kuma taron shugabannin Kiristocin Kudancin, inda ta shiga cikin aikin Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Daga baya, Clayton ta shiga talabijin, inda ta zama Ba'amurke ɗan Afirka na farko daga kudancin Amurka da ya ɗauki nauyin shirin tattaunawa na yau da kullun . Ta zama mataimakiyar shugabar kamfani a Turner Broadcasting . 

Clayton ta ƙirƙiri Gidauniyar Trumpet.  Ta taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen haɓaka Tashar Yancin Bil Adama ta Duniya wadda gidauniyar ta ƙirƙiro don girmama nasarorin 'yan Afirka da masu fafutukar kare haƙƙin bil'adama.  Ta shawo kan wani Babban Dodon Ku Klux Klan ya yi Allah wadai da Klan.  Ƙungiyar Ci Gaban Mutane Masu Launi ta Ƙasa da birnin Atlanta sun karrama Clayton saboda aikinta.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Xernona da tagwayen 'yar uwarta Xenobia a Muskogee, Oklahoma, 'ya'yan Reverend James da Elliott (Lillie) Brewster. Iyayenta su ne masu kula da harkokin Indiya a Muskogee, Oklahoma. A shekarar 1952, Clayton ta sami digirin farko da girmamawa daga Kwalejin Noma da Masana'antu ta Jihar Tennessee da ke Nashville, Tennessee . Ta yi karatun kida da kuma karanci a fannin ilimi .  A Jihar Tennessee, Clayton ta zama memba na kungiyar Alpha Kappa Alpha .  Ita Baptist ce .  Ta yi karatun digiri na biyu a Jami'ar Chicago .

## Sana'a
Clayton ta fara aikinta a cikin Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Bil'adama tare da National Urban League da ke Chicago, tana aiki a ɓoye don bincika wariyar launin fata da ma'aikata ke yi wa 'yan Afirka Amurkawa. Clayton ta ƙaura zuwa Atlanta a 1965, inda ta shirya tarurruka don Taron Jagorancin Kiristocin Kudancin (SCLC), a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Martin Luther King Jr. Ta ƙulla abota mai zurfi da matar Dr. King, Coretta Scott King .  Clayton da Scott King sun yi tafiya tare a rangadin kade-kade. Duk da cewa Clayton bai yi tafiya tare da King ba, yana mai ambaton tsoron kama shi, Clayton ya taimaka wajen tsara jerin gwanon King. 

A shekarar 1966, Clayton ya jagoranci Kwamitin Likitoci don Aiwatarwa, ƙungiyar likitocin Baƙar fata 'yan Amurka waɗanda suka yi aiki a duk asibitocin Atlanta kuma suka cimma nasarar raba su . Kwamitin Likitoci ya yi aiki a matsayin abin koyi ga raba asibitoci a duk faɗin ƙasar, kuma Ƙungiyar Likitoci ta Ƙasa ta karrama shi.  

Daga nan Clayton ya jagoranci shirin Atlanta Model Cities, wata ƙungiya da gwamnatin tarayya ke ɗaukar nauyinta don inganta ingancin unguwannin da ba a raba su ba. Clayton ya haɗu da Calvin Craig, Babban Dragon na Georgia Ku Klux Klan, ta hanyar shirin Model Cities, yayin da Craig ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara a ƙungiyar. Craig ya ambaci tasirin Clayton lokacin da ya yanke shawarar yin Allah wadai da Klan a watan Afrilun 1968. 

A shekarar 1967, Clayton ta zama Ba’amurke ɗan asalin Kudancin Afirka na farko da ya shirya wani shirin tattaunawa na yau da kullun .  An watsa shirin a WAGA -TV da ke Atlanta kuma aka sake masa suna zuwa *The Xernona Clayton Show* .  Clayton ta shiga Turner Broadcasting a shekarar 1979 a matsayin mai shirya shirye-shiryen shirye-shirye na musamman.  A shekarun 1980, ta yi aiki a matsayin darektan hulda da jama'a na Turner Broadcasting.  A shekarar 1988, Turner Broadcasting ta ɗaukaka Clayton zuwa mataimakiyar shugabar kamfanoni na harkokin birane, inda ta ba ta jagorancin ayyukan Turner da kuma yin aiki a matsayin mai haɗin gwiwa tsakanin Turner Broadcasting da ƙungiyoyin jama'a a Atlanta da kuma ko'ina cikin ƙasar.  Clayton ta yi ritaya daga Turner Broadcasting a shekarar 1997, ta zaɓi kiran ritayar a matsayin "canjin aiki na ƙwararru". 

Clayton tana aiki a kwamitin gudanarwa na King Center for Nonviolent Social Change .  Ta yi aiki a kwamitin bita na ma'aikatar kwadago ta jihar Georgia.  A shekarar 1991, ta buga wani tarihin rayuwarta, *I've Been Marching All The Time*, wani taken da King ya yi wahayi zuwa gare shi.  Littafin ya mayar da hankali kan rayuwarta da ra'ayoyinta game da Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Bil'adama. 

A shekarar 1993, Clayton, tare da Turner Broadcasting, sun ƙirƙiri lambar yabo ta Trumpet don girmama nasarorin da 'yan Afirka suka samu.   Ta yi aiki a matsayin shugaba, shugaba, kuma shugabar gidauniyar kyaututtuka ta Trumpet wadda aka kafa a ƙarshen 2004.   A farkon 2004, Clayton ta ƙirƙiri Tashar Yancin Bil Adama ta Duniya. 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Clayton memba ne na Cocin Baptist na Ebenezer, inda Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. yake fasto. 

Clayton ya auri Ed Clayton (wanda shi ma ya yi aiki tare da Dr. King)  daga 1957 har zuwa rasuwarsa a 1966. Ta yi aiki tare da rubuta wani bugu da aka sake fasalin tarihin rayuwar mijinta na Martin Luther King Jr. wanda aka yi wa lakabi da *The Peaceful Warrior* .

Bayan mutuwar mijinta na farko, Clayton ta auri Paul L. Brady, Ba’amurke ɗan Afirka na farko da aka naɗa a matsayin Alkalin Shari’ar Gudanarwa ta Tarayya,  a shekarar 1974.  Brady da Clayton suna da 'ya'ya biyu daga auren Brady na baya,  Laura da Paul Jr.

## Daraja
TSU ta karrama Clayton a bikin bayar da kyaututtukan Blue and White All-Star Academy a shekarar 2005.  An ƙara sawun Clayton a cikin Tashar 'Yancin Bil'adama ta Duniya a shekarar 2006.  A ranar 1 ga Mayu, 2011, Clayton ta sami kyautar James Weldon Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award daga reshen Detroit na National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  Ta sami kyautar hidimar al'umma ta gida daga Kwalejin Spelman a shekarar 2004. 

A watan Satumba na 2011, Majalisar Birnin Atlanta ta sake sunan titi da kuma wani fili a Hardy Ivy Park da ke tsakiyar birnin Atlanta don girmama Clayton.  Tare da haɗin gwiwar Ƙungiyar Masu Buga Jaridu ta Ƙasa, Gidauniyar AFC Enterprises tana ba da tallafin karatu na shekara-shekara na Xernona Clayton Black Press wanda ya kai dala $10,000 ga ɗalibi da ke neman digirin digirgir a fannin aikin jarida .  Kamfanin Mattel Toy ya ƙirƙiri 'yar tsana ta "Xernona Clayton Barbie " don girmama ta a 2004. 

An karrama Xernona Clayton a duk duniya saboda gudummawarta ga bil'adama, wadanda suka hada da: Matan Tagulla na Shekara don Hulɗa da Dan Adam, 1969; Kyautar Sadarwa ta Mace Mai Nasara ta Atlanta Reshen Matan Amurka a Rediyo da Talabijin, 1984–85; Kyautar Shirye-shiryen Talabijin Mai Kyau ta Iota Phi Lambda sorority, 1971; an sanya ta a cikin Matan da suka fi tasiri a Georgia a 1984 da kuma Bakar Georgian na Shekara a 1984 ; an sanya ta a cikin Jagoranci Atlanta, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, 1971; an sanya ta a Bethune-Tubman Woman of the Year Award, Chicago, 1985; an sanya mata a matsayin Mace ta Shekara ta gidauniyar Black Women Hall of Fame, 1985; Kyautar Kizzy 1979; Kyautar Jin Kai, Hillside International Truth Center, 1986; Mace Bakar fata ta farko da ta karɓi Kyautar Trailblazer ta Greater Atlanta Club Business and Professional Woman; an sanya mata a cikin Manyan Mata 100 na Bakar Fata 'Yan Kasuwa da Ƙwararru ta Dollars and Sense Magazine, 1985; kasancewa ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda aka karrama a Atlanta bakwai don lambar yabo ta Black Achievers Award ta Equitable, 1986; an shigar da shi cikin Kwalejin Mata Masu Nasara ta YWCA, 1986; Kyautar Sadarwa ta OICs of America, 1986; Kyautar Ruhun Amurka ta Sabis na Daukar Ma'aikata na Sojojin Sama na Amurka, 1987; da kuma karɓar Kyautar Shugaban Ƙasa ta Taron Magadan Gari na Ƙasa, 1983.

A Ranar Mata ta Duniya a shekarar 2023, Birnin Atlanta ya bayyana wani mutum-mutumin Clayton a filin wasa wanda aka sanya mata suna a matsayin girmamawa a Titin West Peachtree. Wurin da ke tsakiyar birnin Atlanta alama ce ta Clayton, domin an "jefa ta daga otal"  a kan titi a lokacin fafutukar kare hakkin jama'a . 

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