Person An individual. Prim Media Primary media for this item. 6575 First Name Diane Surname Abbott Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Diane Abbott Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 6083 Type The nature or genre of the resource Person Description An account of the resource Representing the London constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott was Britain's first Black woman MP. Born on September 27th, 1953, in London of Jamaican parents, Abbott was educated at Harrow County Girls' Grammar School and Newnham College, Cambridge, with an MA in History. A journalist by profession, she worked as an administrative trainee with the Home Office; Race Relations Officer for the National Council for Civil Liberties; a reporter with TV AM and Thames Television; Public Relations Officer with the GLC and Head of Lambeth Council's Press Office. Abbott was active in the Black Sections movement within the Labour Party and in community politics, including OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent); the "Scrap Sus" campaign to ban police stop-and-search tactics levelled at Black youth, and was a founder member of the Black Media Workers' Organisation. Active for many years in the Trade Union movement, particularly on race equality issues, Ms Abbott served for a year as Britain's first Black female Equality Officer in the Association of Cinematographers Television and Allied Technicians. She also served as an elected local councillor in the London Borough of Westminster for four years, during which she was a member of the Environment, Grants and Social Services She is also founder and president of the organisation Black Women Mean Business Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived stories,westindians Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953-09-27 Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT