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
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]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..[1]
Ọrụ na agụmakwụkwọ na Brooklyn
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]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. [2] Ọ zutere ma lụọ Henry Ellis Coursey n'oge na-adịghị anya mgbe ọ bịarutere na New York, ha wee nwee ụmụ atọ.[3] Mgbe ọ na-akụzi ihe, ọ nwetakwara nzere masta na nchịkwa ndị ọrụ na Teacher's College, Mahadum Columbia . [2][1] 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.[4] 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. [2][4] 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. [2] [5][6] N'afọ 1967, Coursey duziri mbọ ịhazi iji guzobe ụlọ nlekọta ụbọchị na Bed-Stuy, nke kwadoro Young Mothers Program. [5][4] 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. [2][7]
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.[3] 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.[2][8][9] 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. [3] [1]
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.[10][11]
Ihe odide
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Herbert Von King Park: Almira Kennedy Coursey Ampitheatre. New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved on January 12, 2024. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid
<ref>tag; name ":1" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Bartlett (December 2014). The Politics of Community Development of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. Temple University Graduate Board. Retrieved on January 12, 2024. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid
<ref>tag; name ":2" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Coursey. Almira Kennedy Coursey. Our Time Press. Retrieved on 2024-01-12. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid
<ref>tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Woodsworth (2016). Battle for Bed-Stuy: the long war on poverty in New York City. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1, 17. ISBN 978-0-674-54506-9.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "BROOKLYN TO GET DAY-CARE CENTER", The New York Times, 1971-08-29. Retrieved on 2024-01-12. (in en-US)
- ↑ (1970) in Fitch: Agenda for a city: Issues confronting New York. Beverly Hills, Calif: Sage Publ, 425. ISBN 978-0-8039-0077-6.
- ↑ Davies (2013). "Black Power in Action: The Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Robert F. Kennedy, and the Politics of the Urban Crisis". The Journal of American History 100 (3): 736–760. DOI:10.1093/jahist/jat537. ISSN 0021-8723.
- ↑ Maynard (1983). Weeksville, then & now : the search to discover, the effort to preserve, memories of self in Brooklyn, New York, Internet Archive, Brooklyn, N.Y. : Society for the Preservation of Weeksville & Bedford-Stuyvesant History.
- ↑ Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York. CUNY (November 23, 1970). Retrieved on January 12, 2024.
- ↑ Von King Park Amphitheater Named In Honor Of Community Leader Almira Kennedy Coursey. New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (September 27, 2011). Retrieved on January 12, 2024.
- ↑ Spellen (2012-08-09). Walkabout: Brooklyn's Small Parks: Tompkins Park, Part 2 (en-US). Brownstoner. Retrieved on 2024-01-12.