EULAC_6588 England "" This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693669. eulac3d Site TEXT University of St Andrews EULAC "" "Born in Barbados in 1941, in his teens Trevor became an outstanding leader in the Church Lads\u2019 Brigade, first visiting the UK on its behalf, aged 16. In the early 60s, he travelled to England to work for London Transport while maintaining his commitment to community and youth work through the church. This led to a post as Administrator for the Church of England Board of Education, and the early beginnings of his influence on national thought and practice in race relations. He moved to Rugby in Community Relations, focusing specifically on young people, where his creative methods soon brought the very diverse communities of the town together, reaching the lives of children, young people, and adults alike. Never afraid to tackle the big issues, he initiated research, developed community initiatives, and pioneered multiracial youth international exchanges. He created innovative training programmes, gaining the confidence of communities, police, and local authority, to bring people together in challenging times in terms of race equality. With significant race relations legislation just beginning to emerge, Trevor\u2019s skills and expertise were soon noticed at the national level and he was appointed in 1982 to the Home Office as Race Equality Adviser to the Permanent Secretary. Trevor was instrumental in transforming policy and practice, whilst maintaining absolute integrity and independent thought.\r\nAs the most senior black civil servant of the time, Trevor was promoted to join the Management Board, sharing perspectives and initiatives at the very highest levels, always keeping in mind the interests of those unable easily to communicate with those in power. Trevor\u2019s initiatives in training senior police, magistracy, senior judges and immigration service had a lasting impact, significantly changing race relations practice. Throughout, Trevor never lost track of his commitment to young people and communities, taking on the roles of Chair of the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, and Vice Chair of the National Youth Bureau. In the mid-80s, he spearheaded the establishment of the Windsor Fellowship, creating leadership development programmes for young Black and Asian undergraduates to enable them to compete positively in both public and private sectors, where they were significantly under-represented at senior level. Conventional retirement was not an option and on leaving the Home Office, Trevor was asked to continue as Race Advisor to the Lord Chancellor\u2019s Department, and he continues even now to direct Windsor Fellowship programmes.\r\nIn recognition of his outstanding work, Trevor has been recognised both by academia, through an honorary Doctorate in Law and Letters, and by government, having been awarded both an OBE and the CBE" Person "Born on the 12th of March 1927, Aaron attended Combermere School after which he travelled to Trinidad to attend the Seventh Day Adventist College. He graduated from there in 1945, gaining a teaching posting at an elementary school in San Juan and Sangre Grande two years later. Two years at Port of Spain Secondary School prepared him for the post of Principal of Southern Academy. Two years later, he left to attend Long Island University in Brooklyn N.Y, where he majored in biology while working at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a technician in the blood laboratory.\r\nHe came to England in 1965 and at first taught biology and chemistry at Pollards Hill Secondary School before entering the field of Race and Community Relations. He served as senior community relations officer in Wolverhampton before moving on to the Community Relations Commission as Principal Development Officer. He held several posts in the Commission for Racial Equality, culminating in the post of Chief Executive.\r\nAfter retiring from the Commission, he functioned as a freelance journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of The State of Black Britain Volume One, first published in 1983, which carries an analysis of the forces that governed the post-war immigration of black people into Britain. It covers the search for jobs and housing, the challenges faced in education and social services and how race became a volatile political issue. Volume Two picks up where Volume One concludes and begins with an analysis of the Thatcher years and their impact on the Black community. Together the two volumes represent a comprehensive, honest, insider\u2019s view of the struggle for equality in Britain" Person "One of seven siblings, Russel Henderson grew up in Port Of Spain, Trinidad, initially learning to play the piano, and subsequently steel-pan.\r\nBy 1948, at the age of 24, Henderson had achieved a fair amount of success with his jazz quartet in Trinidad and also began taking an interest in steel-pan, this being facilitated by meeting Beryl McBernie, who ran a theatre company and was championing steel-pan, an instrument hitherto stigmatised by its working class origins and association with gangs.\r\nOn coming to England to study piano tuning in North London he soon began playing in clubs, and also formed a small steel-band with Sterling Betancourt and Max Cherrie. This steel-band achieved considerable success in various formats in the succeeding years and was the first such combo to play for royalty. Other notable musical associations at that time were with the calypsonian Lord Kitchener and trumpeter Leslie Hutchinson.\r\nHenderson is also credited as one of the founding fathers of the Notting Hill Carnival, which started as a marching band festival in London's Bayswater Road and Queensway. In 1966 he and his band were instrumental in establishing the Carnival as a national annual event. Reflecting on its initial success years later Henderson joked, "That was fantastic, let's do it again next year!" He is remembered with a blue plaque on Tavistock Road.\u00a0" Person "C.L.R. James, in full Cyril Lionel Robert James, (born Jan. 4, 1901, Tunapuna, Trinidad \u2014 died May 31, 1989, London, Eng.), was a West Indian-born cultural historian, cricket writer, and political activist who was a leading figure in the Pan-African movement.\r\nJames was certified as a teacher at Queen\u2019s Royal College in Port of Spain, Trinidad (1918). In 1932 he moved to England, where he published The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932; revised as The Case for West-Indian Self-Government, 1933) with the personal and financial support of the West Indian cricketer and politician Learie (later Lord) Constantine. \r\nDuring the 1930s James was a cricket correspondent for The Guardian (Manchester) and became increasingly involved in Marxist politics and the African and West Indian independence movements. His most notable work was The Black Jacobins (1938), a Marxist study of the Haitian slave revolution of the 1790s, which won him widespread acclaim.\r\nJames left England to live in the United States (1939\u201353), but he was expelled for political reasons. He was interned at Ellis Island in New York City, where he wrote an analysis of Herman Melville\u2019s Moby Dick called Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways (1953). Thereafter he moved between London and Trinidad, where he was secretary of the West Indies Federal Labour Party (1958\u201360). \r\nIn Beyond a Boundary (1963) James discussed the importance of cricket to the British character and to the development of the West Indies. His other books included the novel Minty Alley (1936), World Revolution (1937), Notes on Dialectics (1971), Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution (1977), and Cricket (1986), a collection of articles spanning the period 1935 to 1985." Person "Claudia Jones, feminist, black nationalist, political activist, community leader, communist and journalist, has been described as the mother of the Notting Hill Carnival. The diversity of her political affiliations clearly illustrated her multifaceted approach to the struggle for equal rights in the 20th century.\r\nShe was born in Belmont, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1915 and at the age of eight moved to Harlem, New York with her parents and three sisters. Her education was cut short by Tuberculosis and the damage to her lungs as well as severe heart disease plagued Claudia for the rest of her life.\r\nFor over 30 years she lived in New York and during this time became an active member of the American Communist party, an organisation in which her journalistic and community leadership skills were maximised. By 1948 she had become the editor of Negro Affairs for the party's paper the Daily Worker and had evolved into an accomplished speaker on human and civil rights.\r\nIn 1955 she was deported from the US and given asylum in England, where she spent her remaining years working with London's African-Caribbean community. She founded and edited The West Indian Gazette which despite financial problems remained crucial in her fight for equal opportunities for black people.\r\nClaudia Jones lasting legacy is undoubtedly the Notting Hill Carnival, which she helped launch in 1959 as an annual showcase for Caribbean talent. These early celebrations were held in halls and were epitomised by the slogan, 'A people's art is the genesis of their freedom'." Person "From her modest beginnings as a singer in English dance halls, Cleo Laine has gone on to achieve international fame by continually expanding her talents in a career which spans some four decades. She is one of the most celebrated singers of our time. Cleo commands a dazzling array of vocal styles and is the only singer ever to receive Grammy nominations in the Female Jazz, Popular, and Classical categories.\r\nLaine began her musical career in the early 50's in her native England, where she was born in a London suburb. Cleo showed early singing talent which was nurtured by her Jamaican father and English mother who sent her to singing and dancing lessons.\r\nIn addition to concert appearances, Cleo has carved a niche as an illustrious actress. Laine's professional career in the legitimate theatre began in London when she starred in Flesh to a Tiger, directed by Tony Richardson at the Royal Court Theatre. Her theatrical credits include A Midsummer Night 's Dream, Valmouth, Women of Troy and the title role in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.\r\nIn 1983 Cleo became the first British artist to win a coveted Grammy award - Best Female Jazz Vocalist, for the third of her "live" Carnegie Hall albums, all recorded at the famous New York auditorium.\r\nShe has been a frequent guest on American television including such specials as "An Evening at the Boston Pops with Cleo Laine" and "Cleo Laine: Live at Wolftrap". In addition to her numerous international television specials, she has also been a featured performer on the classic British television show 'That Was The Week That Was".\r\nIn addition to receiving an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Boston's prestigious Berklee School of Music and being named, along with her husband John Dankworth, the Variety Club's "Show Business Personality of the Year," Cleo Laine was honoured by Queen Elizabeth with an O.B.E. \r\nThe beginning of this decade has already brought Cleo new acclaim with a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), and a Lifetime Achievement Accolade from the British Jazz Awards in 1996.\r\nWhether interpreting a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets set to music, appearing in Jazz Festivals, operas, or singing with Symphony orchestras and big bands, Cleo Laine is consistently finding new forums for her considerable range of talents." Person "Val McCalla arrived in England in May 1959, aged 15, with dreams of being a pilot. He joined the RAF, but his plans were soon grounded by a perforated eardrum. He spent five years in the supplies section, where he picked up book-keeping skills.\r\nAfter leaving the RAF in the mid-1960s, he worked in a variety of accounts and book-keeping positions, before volunteering to go part-time on a radical community newspaper, East End News, based near his flat in Bethnal Green. The newspaper bug took a grip, and, within a few years, the Voice had risen from idea into reality\r\nMcCalla saw that Britain's national press gave scant coverage to black issues - and that when it did, it was usually negative. There were a couple of black-orientated publications which appealed to an older generation of Caribbean immigrants, whose notion of "home" lay thousands of miles away. But for a younger generation of British-born blacks, there was nothing.\r\nMcCalla identified the emerging culture of the black British identity and honed it into tabloid form. Helped with start-up money from the Greater London Council, his paper quickly established itself as an important campaigner against all forms of racism. For local authorities, and voluntary sector organisations concerned about the lack of ethnic minorities in their ranks, it became a valuable recruitment tool. This led to pages of job advertising\r\nFrom a small, east London council flat in 1982, Val McCalla started the weekly newspaper, the Voice, which went on to become the mouthpiece of Britain's black community and made him a multi-millionaire. Launched at the Notting Hill carnival that August, it grew into the most popular and important black newspaper in this country. From initial sales of only 4,000, within eight years the Voice was selling more than 53,000 copies a week - and turning over a small fortune in job recruitment advertising." Person "Dalton McConney is a retired Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector. He mostly served as a uniformed officer in South London and came to prominence following the second Brixton riots In the mid-eighties. He was born in Barbados and educated at Ebenezer Boys and the Modern High School. He worked as a proof reader at the Barbados Advocate newspaper and at the Government Printing Office before joining the economic migration to the UK in I960.\r\nAged 36, he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1976. He served as a Constable at Battersea, Sergeant at Belgravia and a Recruit Instructor at Hendon Police College. He obtained the Certificate of Education (University of London), helped to research the new Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984, updated the Training Manual and taught the changes in the Act to instructors. He passed the Inspector\u2019s examination in 1988 and was posted to Brixton after the second riots.\r\nHe was the first senior black officer to serve at Brixton Police Station in the Borough of Lambeth. gaining the trust of residents and helping to lower tensions. He also set up the \u201cBrixton Summer Project\u201d during the school holidays, engaging local unemployed youth as staff. A two-part C4 documentary, \u201cThe Brixton Beat\u201d, highlighted Dalton\u2019s role in the changes at Brixton. He received a Lambeth Civic Award, the Mayor\u2019s Special Award and in 1994 was awarded the MBE for Police\/Community Service.\r\nHe was promoted to Chief Inspector in 1994, becoming Staff Officer to the Assistant Commissioner. As Personnel Manager at Walworth Police Station, he set up the first Criminal Justice Unit and formulated a strategy to deal with street robbery (Operation Eagle Eye)i. He received two Assistant Commissioner\u2019s Commendations for this work.\r\nAfter serving in Bromley, he returned to Lambeth where he devised the Policing Diversity Strategy and Community\/ Race Relations programme. He was awarded the Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, featured in books highlighting black achievements for the Millennium and was one of the subjects of the \u201cBlack Power\u201d photographic exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. On retirement, he was awarded the Queen\u2019s Police Medal for Distinguished Police Service and later received an Assistant Commissioner\u2019s Commendation for work on Critical Incident Management. Dalton also supports various Barbadian Organisations in London and continues to use the high profile of his career to promote Barbados." Person "Lord Beginner (born Egbert Moore) was at the heart of the expansion of calypso music immediately after WW2. Originally from Trinidad, Beginner recorded and toured in New York with other leading members of the Trinidad's "Old Brigade" of calypsonians, but his cricket credentials were already established. In 1937 he wrote "Les Ames he played fine\/Till he was bowled by the quicker ball from Constantine". \r\nIn 1948 he emigrated to England on the\u00a0Windrush, the first boat from the Caribbean bringing a new generation of immigrants to the UK. Also on the boat was the legendary calypsonian Lord Kitchener.\r\nBeginner began playing clubs throughout London - primarily the Caribbean and the Paramount - and was a success, signing for Parlophone in 1950. Two of Lord Beginner's more well known calypsos were\u00a0Victory Test Match\u00a0- penned immediately after the 1950 Lord's Test won by West Indies and opening with the line "Cricket, lovely cricket" - and\u00a0General Election, inspired by Clement Atlee's victory in the 1950 general election." Person "Lord Ouseley was born in Guyana in 1945, and came to England when he was 11. He was educated at William Penn School and Catford College, where he gained a diploma in municipal administration. He was appointed as the first principal race relations advisor in local government, and served as Head of the GLC's Ethnic Minority Unit. He later became Chief Executive of the London Borough of Lambeth and the former Inner London Education Authority (the first black person to hold such an office), responsible for over 1000 schools and colleges across the capital. In 1993, he became the executive chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, a position he held until 2000. He is widely credited with having restored the CRE's flagging credibility.\r\nIn 2001, he was raised to the peerage of Baron Ouseley of Peckham Rye in Southwark. He is often called upon to chair independent inquiries into racism, be it in the educational system, or the Bradford riots. He is actively involved in the work of many independent and voluntary organisations including the Institute of Race Relations and the Ethnic Minority Foundation. He is non-Executive Director of Focus Consultancy Ltd, Brooknight Security Ltd and Quiktrak.\r\nHerman Ouseley is also the Chair of PRESET Education and Training trust, Kick-It-Out plc (Let's kick racism out of football campaign), Policy Research Institute on Ageing. & Ethnicity (University of Central England). He is the recipient of eight honorary degrees" Person 52.8823912222619 -0.42846679687500006