https://eu-lac.org/omeka/files/original/6632/Dame_Jocelyn_Barrow.png 01a444f6b800ebbb3b3bde395213fa66 Story End Date 1959 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/. Description An account of the resource Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow DBE (15 April 1929) was born in Trinidad, where she was active in the People's National Movement, and came to England as a postgraduate in 1959. The Director for UK Development at Focus Consultancy Ltd. Dame Jocelyn was a founding member and General Secretary of CARD (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination), the organisation responsible for the Race Relations legislation of 1968. As a senior teacher, and later as a teacher-trainer, at Furzedown College and at the Institute of Education London University in the '60s, she pioneered the introduction of multi-cultural education, stressing the needs of the various ethnic groups in the UK. She was the first black woman Governor of the BBC and Founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council. Her equal opportunities and educational expertise is reflected in her many Government appointments to a variety of organisations and statutory bodies. Governor of the Commonwealth Institute for eight years, Council Member of Goldsmith's College, University of London, Vice-president of the United Nations Association in the UK and Northern Ireland and Trustee to the Irene Taylor Trust providing Music in Prisons. She is National Vice-President of the Townswomen's Guild and was instrumental in the establishment of the North Atlantic Slavery Gallery and the Maritime Museum in Liverpool. She was a Trustee of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside and a Governor of the British Film Institute. In 1972 she was awarded the OBE for work in the field of education and community relations. In 1992 she received the DBE for her work in broadcasting and her contribution to the work of the European Union as the UK Member of the Social Economic Committee Title A name given to the resource Dame Jocelyn Barrow Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived stories,arrival Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1959 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 6138 Type The nature or genre of the resource Story Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,53.014783245859235,-0.6591796875000001;origin,10.43919552993234,-61.25976562500001; Subject The topic of the resource arrival Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT