Dorothy Vena Johnson

Dorothy Vena Johnson
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Los Angeles, 1898
ƙasa	Tarayyar Amurka
Mutuwa	1970
Yanayin mutuwa	(cerebrovascular disease (en) )
Karatu
Makaranta	University of Southern California (en)
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	maiwaƙe

Dorothy Vena Johnson an haife ta a watan Mayu 7,shekara ta alif dari takwas da casa'in da takwas zuwa alif dari tara da saba'in 1898 - 1970) mawakiyar Ba'amurkiya ce kuma malama wacce ke zaune a Los Angeles, California. A cikin 1939, ta kasance mai haɗin gwiwa na League of Allied Arts, ƙungiyar fasahar mata ta Ba-Amurke.

Rayuwa ta sirri

An haifi Dorothy Vena a Los Angeles, 'yar James Vena da matarsa Namie (née Plum). Shi ma’aikacin gidan waya ne, edita, kuma memba ne wanda ya kafa reshen Los Angeles na NAACP. Ta sami digiri na farko a Jami'ar Kudancin California da takardar shaidar koyarwa a Jami'ar California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Ta auri wani lauya, Ivan Johnson III, kafin 1932. Ta rasu a shekara ta 1970, bayan da ta yi fama da zubar jini a kwakwalwa.^{[ana buƙatar hujja]}

Aiki

Johnson mawaƙiya ce wanda Harlem Renaissance ya rinjaye ta. Wakokinta da suka hada da "Green Valley", "Palace", "Letter En Route Overseas", "Bread for Sale", "Epitaph for a Bigot", da "Ball War Ballad", an saka su cikin wallafe-wallafe da tarin wakoki da Arna ya shirya. Bontemps da Beatrice M. Murphy. ^[1] ^[2] Ayyukanta har yanzu suna bayyana a cikin tarihin baƙar fata waƙar mata.

Johnson da ma'aikacin zamantakewa Juanita Ellsworth Miller (matar wallafe-wallafe da alkali Loren Miller ) tayi aiki don inganta mawaka Langston Hughes lokacin da take Los Angeles, kuma daga wannan kwarewa sun hadu da Kungiyar Allied Arts, dan Afirka- Kungiyar mata ta Amirka,a 1939. Johnson itace shugaban kungiyar tun kafa ta har zuwa tsakiyar 1950s. ^[3] A lokacin aikinta kungiyar ta fara ba da tallafin karatu ga masu fasaha da marubuta bakar fata,da habaka yan rawa, gabatarwar wasan kwaikwayo, da karatun marubuta, kuma ta goyi bayan zane-zanen Hijira na Yakubu Lawrence.^[4] A cikin 1962, an kira Johnson "Mace ta Shekara" ta California Alpha Psi Zeta babi na Zeta Phi Beta sorority.^[5]

Johnson ta koyar da aikin jarida ga ƙananan daliban makarantar sakandare a gundumar Unified School District na Los Angeles fiye da shekaru arba'in. Ta kasance memba na Kungiyar Malaman Rubutun Kirkirar Rubutun Los Angeles.Ita ce shugabar makarantar sakandare ta Garden Gate, ta yi ritaya a 1963.Daga cikin dalibanta akwai 'yar kasuwa Dolores Ratcliffe, wacce ta tuna da ita a matsayin "fitaccen mutum kuma daya ne kawai daga cikin malamai bakar fata guda biyu a makarantar firamare ta.A aji uku na yanke shawarar cewa zan zama kamar ita.”

Ita ce bakar fata ta farko a makarantar sakandare ta Los Angeles. ^[6]

Gado

An sadaukar da Makarantar Sakandare ta Dorothy Vera Johnson a cikin Disamba 1980. ^[6] Daga baya an san shi da Makarantar Ranar Jama'a ta Johnson, makarantar ci gaba na maki 7 zuwa 12, wacce ke a yankin masana'antu gabas da Titin Harbour a Kudancin Los Angeles.A cikin Oktoba 2008 an koma wani kusurwa na Bernstein High School kudu da Sunset Boulevard a Hollywood. ^[7]

Tarin tarihin bakar fata a Reshen Vernon na Laburaren Jama'a na Los Angeles an sanya wa Johnson suna a cikin 1971. ^[8]

Ƙungiyar Allied Arts har yanzu tana aiki a Los Angeles; Ana adana takardunsa a UCLA.^[9]