| LC control no. | n 91099878 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Barrow, Jocelyn |
| Associated country | Trinidad and Tobago Great Britain Jamaica |
| Birth date | 1929-04-15 |
| Death date | 2020-04-09 |
| Place of birth | Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) |
| Field of activity | Race relations Education Language arts Broadcasting |
| Affiliation | Caribbean House Group University of London Campaign Against Racial Discrimination British Broadcasting Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Political activists Educators English teachers Executives |
| Found in | Gibson, A. The unequal struggle, 1986: t.p. (Jocelyn Barrow) p. 11 (OBE, MA, Chairman of Caribbean House Group) Guardian WWW site, viewed May 29, 2020 (Dame Jocelyn Barrow; Jocelyn Anita Barrow, race relations campaigner and teacher, born 15 April 1929, Port of Spain, Trinidad; died 9 April 2020; arrived in the UK in 1959 to pursue an English degree at London University, followed by postgraduate studies at the Institute of Education. She remained in the UK for the rest of her life, and throughout the 1960s and 70s taught English at schools in Hackney, one of the most deprived areas of east London, later becoming a lecturer at Furzedown teacher training college in Tooting, south London. As an educationist who fervently believed in multiculturalism, she could not stomach the yawning gap between well-resourced schools for mainly middle-class white children and poorly resourced schools for mainly working-class black children. As general secretary and co-founder of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (Card) in the mid-1960s, she helped to pave the way for the 1965 Race Relations Act, She was general secretary and then vice chair of Card from 1964 to 1969, Later, as governor of the BBC (1981 to 1988), she initiated programmes that encouraged young black and Asian people to fulfil their potential. In 1970 Jocelyn married Henderson Downer. For most of their long marriage they lived between the UK and Jamaica) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | nr 88007182 |
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