Moneta Sleet Jr.

**Moneta J. Sleet Jr.** (February 14, 1926 - Septemba 30, 1996) bụ onye na-ese foto akwụkwọ akụkọ America kacha mara amara maka ọrụ ya dị ka onye na-ese foto maka akwụkwọ akụkọ  . N'afọ 1969, e nyere ya ihe nrite Pulitzer maka eserese ngosi maka foto Coretta Scott King, nwanyị di ya nwụrụ Martin Luther King Jr., na olili ozu di ya. Sleet bụ onye mbụ Afrika-American nke meriri Pulitzer, na onye mbụ Afrika America meriri ihe nrite maka akwụkwọ akụkọ.    Ọ nwụrụ n'ọrịa cancer na 1996 mgbe ọ dị afọ 70. 

## Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ
Amụrụ Sleet na Owensboro, Kentucky .  Ọ bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke akwụkwọ akụkọ ụlọ akwụkwọ na Western High School, *onye nkụzi* ya.  Ọ gụchara *cum laude* na Kentucky State College (ugbu a Kentucky State University ), kọleji ojii na akụkọ ihe mere eme, na 1947 wee nweta akara ugo mmụta nna ukwu na akwụkwọ akụkọ sitere na Mahadum New York (NYU) na 1950. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na School of Modern Photography ebe ọ gara n'ihu na nka foto ya. N'otu oge a Sleet jere ozi na ngalaba ndị America niile na-alụ na Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ ma bụrụ onye inyeaka na ụlọ ọrụ a na-ere ahịa. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na NYU ọ bụ onye nta akụkọ egwuregwu maka *Amsterdam News* na New York wee bụrụ akwụkwọ akụkọ John P. Davis *World Anyị* .  

## Magazin ''Ebony''
thumb| Foto nwetara ihe nrite Sleet's Pulitzer nke Coretta Scott King na Bernice King na olili ozu Martin Luther King.
Sleet malitere ịrụ ọrụ na magazin *Ebony* na 1955.  N'ime afọ 41 sochirinụ, o weghaara foto nke nwa okorobịa Muhammad Ali, Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Emperor Haile Selassie I, Jomo Kenyatta, onye bụbu onye nnọchianya Andrew Young na jaket akpụkpọ anụ na-acha anụnụ anụnụ na jeans na ụlọ ọrụ ya na United Nations, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, William Tubman nke Liberia na Billie Holiday .  Ọ nwetara ịhụnanya na nkwanye ùgwù nke ọtụtụ ndị isi ihe ruuru obodo, ndị ọtụtụ n'ime ha na-akpọ ya aha. Mgbe Coretta Scott King chọpụtara na o nweghị ndị America America na-ese foto e kenyere ka ha kpuchie ọrụ olili di ya, ọ chọrọ ka Sleet bụrụ akụkụ nke ọdọ mmiri a. Ọ bụrụ na ọ bụghị, ọ tụrụ egwu igbochi ndị na-ese foto niile na ọrụ ahụ.  E wezụga foto ya nke Coretta Scott King, o weghaara nwanyị di ya nwụrụ na-eru uju Betty Shabazz na olili ozu nke di ya Malcolm X.  Nchịkọta foto ya n'ụdị akwụkwọ, *Special Moments in African-American History, 1955-1996: Foto nke Moneta Sleet, Jr., Ebony Magazine's Pulitzer Prize Winner*, ka ebipụtara mgbe ọ gasịrị na 1998. 

## Civil Rights Movement
N'ime afọ 41 Sleet na *Ebony*, ọ rụkwara ọrụ n'akụkụ Martin Luther King Jr. afọ iri na atọ, na-ewere oge akụkọ ihe mere eme nke mmegharị ikike obodo. Moneta weghaara ihe onyonyo ama ama nke Rosa Parks, MLK, Ralph Abernathy, Ralph Bunche, na Coretta Scott King na-edu ndị ngagharị iwe. Ọ weghaara onyonyo nke okwu MLK's I Have a Dream na Lincoln Memorial, njem si Selma gaa Montgomery, na njem ụgbọ ala Montgomery . 

## Ndụ onwe onye
Sleet lụrụ nwunye ya Juanita na 1950 wee mụọ ụmụ nwoke abụọ na otu nwa nwanyị: Gregory M. Sleet, onye ọka ikpe nke na-anọbu na United States District Court maka District nke Delaware, Lisa, na Michael Sleet. Ọ nwere ụmụ ụmụ atọ: Ashlee Evertsz, Moneta Sleet III, na Kelsi Sleet. Sleet bụkwa onye otu Sigma Pi Phi, nzukọ kacha ochie nke Africa-American Greek, yana MLK. Ọ bụ akụkụ nke ụlọ ọrụ mgbasa ozi esenidụt nke mere na ọ na-ese ọtụtụ foto nke ndị isi ụwa.

## Ọnwụ
Sleet, mgbe onye bi na Baldwin, New York, nwụrụ n'ihi ọrịa kansa na Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center na Septemba 30, 1996.

## Hụkwa

* Ndepụta nke ndị na-ese foto nke mmegharị ikike obodo

## Ntụaka
nwetara ịhụnanya na nkwanye ùgwù nke ọtụtụ ndị isi ihe ruuru obodo, ndị ọtụtụ n'ime ha na-akpọ ya aha. Mgbe Coretta Scott King chọpụtara na o nweghị ndị America America na-ese foto e kenyere ka ha kpuchie ọrụ olili di ya, ọ chọrọ ka Sleet bụrụ akụkụ nke ọdọ mmiri a. Ọ bụrụ na ọ bụghị, ọ tụrụ egwu igbochi

## Njikọ mpụga

* Moneta Sleet Jr. na ebe nchekwa data ndị na-ese ihe nkiri nke ndị America America