Almira Kennedy Coursey

Almira Kennedy Coursey (June 5, 1914 - Ọgọst 26, 1996) bụ onye nkwado obodo na onye nhazi nke dabere na Bedford-Stuyvesant na Brooklyn, New York. A maara ya nke ọma maka ịkwado maka ndozigharị na mweghachi nke Herbert Von King Park.

## Oge ọ malitere
A mụrụ Almira Kennedy Coursey na June 5, 1914, na New Bern, North Carolina nye Augustus T. na Juanita C. Kennedy.[1] Ọ bụ ọkpara n'ime ụmụ anọ wee tolite na Winston-Salem, ebe ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị.[2] Coursey gara St. Augustine's College na Raleigh, ma mụọ bekee na geography tupu ya agụchaa ya na ogo mmụta na 1934.[3][1] Na St. Augustine, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye inyeaka na dean nke ụmụ nwanyị maka kọleji, ọrụ ọ rụrụ n'ime 1930s.[1] Coursey nyekwara aka guzobe St. Augustine's National Alumni Association, ma jee ozi dịka odeakwụkwọ afọ iri.[1][4] N'ọgwụgwụ 1930s, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dịka onye nkuzi na Clayton, North Carolina, wee mepụta mmemme "Three W's" maka ụmụ agbọghọ nọ n'afọ iri na ụma, bụ nke kụnyere ụkpụrụ nke ịbụ nwanyị, ntụrụndụ mara mma, na njikere ije ozi.

## Ọrụ na agụmakwụkwọ na Brooklyn
N'afọ 1940, Coursey kwagara Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, ebe ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye nkuzi ma mesịa bụrụ osote onye isi na Macon Junior High School, nke a makwaara dị ka Intermediate School 258.  Ọ zutere ma lụọ Henry Ellis Coursey n'oge na-adịghị anya mgbe ọ bịarutere na New York, ha wee nwee ụmụ atọ. Mgbe ọ na-akụzi ihe, ọ nwetakwara nzere masta na nchịkwa ndị ọrụ na Teacher's College, Mahadum Columbia .  N'afọ 1964, Coursey malitere ịrụ ọrụ na Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council (CBCC), njikọ nke klọb obodo, ụka, òtù ndị na-ahụ maka ikike obodo, na òtù ndị na'ahụ maka mgbochi nke Elsie Richardson duziri. Ndị inyom ndị ọzọ a ma ama na CBCC gụnyere Shirley Chisholm na Lucille Rose. Site na Kọmitii Tompkins Park, nke a makwaara dị ka Tompkins park Recreation and Cultural Association, Coursey gbara obodo ahụ ume imeziwanye Herbert Von King Park, nke akpọrọ Tompkins Parc. Nkwado ya mesịrị duga n'iwu ọdọ mmiri Kosciuszko, nke Morris Lapidus rụrụ, yana imezigharị ụlọ ọrụ ogige ahụ na mgbakwunye nke Eubie Blake Auditorium, Herbert Von King Cultural Arts Center, na Little League fields na 1969.  Ka ọ na-erule 1965, Coursey na-eje ozi na bọọdụ nke CBCC na otu mmekọ, Youth in Action (YIA), nke mesịrị ghọọ Community Sponsors, Inc.   N'afọ 1967, Coursey duziri mbọ ịhazi iji guzobe ụlọ nlekọta ụbọchị na Bed-Stuy, nke kwadoro Young Mothers Program.   Mgbe oge nke ịlụ ọgụ na ịhazigharị na ngwụcha afọ 1960, ọ bụ otu n'ime ndị bụbu ndị otu CBCC sonyeere bọọdụ nke Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (R&R), ụlọ ọrụ obodo nke Robert F. Kennedy na Thomas Jones mepụtara. 

N'afọ 1968, Coursey malitere ịrụ ọrụ dị ka onye enyemaka pụrụ iche nye osote chancellor nke Mahadum City nke New York, ebe ọ mepụtara mmemme iji nyere ụmụ akwụkwọ ole na ole aka. Ọ rụkwara ọrụ na CUNY Office of Urban Affairs, ma nweta nkwado na ego enyemaka maka Society For the Preservation of Weeksville, nke a maara ugbu a dị ka Weeksville Heritage Center. Coursey gara n'ihu n'ọrụ nkwado ya ruo n'afọ ndị 1970, ma rụọ ọrụ na kọmitii zuru oke maka ịda ogbenye na agụmakwụkwọ n'okpuru nchịkwa onye isi obodo nke Robert F. Wagner na John Lindsay.  

Coursey nwụrụ na Brooklyn na Ọgọst 29, 1996.[1] Na Septemba 27, 2011, akpọrọ amphitheater dị n'èzí dị na Herbert Von King Park maka nsọpụrụ ya, na emume nke New York City Parks & Recreation Commissioner, Adrian Benepe, yana ndị otu Tompkins Park Recreation & Cultural Association gara. Ada Coursey, Henrietta.

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