1. Betty Campbell was a Welsh community activist, who was Wales' first black head teacher.
19 Facts About Betty Campbell
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Betty Campbell put into practice innovative ideas on the education of children and was actively involved in the community.
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Betty Campbell was born Rachel Elizabeth Johnson in Butetown, Cardiff, in 1934.
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Betty Campbell's mother struggled financially after the death of Betty's father and occasionally worked as an illegal street bookmaker.
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Betty Campbell won a scholarship to the Lady Margaret High School for Girls in Cardiff and wanted to be a teacher from a young age.
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Betty Campbell faced discouragement from one of her teachers who told her the problems for a working-class black girl would be "insurmountable".
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Betty Campbell Johnson became pregnant at the age of 17, while she was doing her A-levels.
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Betty Campbell left school when she married Rupert Campbell, a fitter's mate, in 1953.
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Betty Campbell had four children, one of whom had special needs.
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In 1960, when Betty Campbell already had three children, she discovered that Cardiff Teacher Training College had started to enrol female students.
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Betty Campbell applied, and was one of only six female students to be admitted.
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Betty Campbell soon returned to Butetown, getting a job at Mount Stuart Primary School, where she taught for 28 years.
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Betty Campbell was inspired by a trip to the US where she learned about anti-slavery activists like Harriet Tubman and the civil rights movement.
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Betty Campbell served as an independent councillor for Butetown on Cardiff Council from 1999 to 2004.
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Betty Campbell was unseated by Vaughan Gething who won by two votes, Gething would go on to become the first black First Minister of Wales.
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Betty Campbell became a member of the Home Office's race advisory committee and a member of the Commission for Racial Equality.
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Betty Campbell was invited to be part of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Commission on Education, which published a number of research papers on education.
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Betty Campbell was a board member of BBC Wales in the 1980s, and was made an honorary fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University.
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Betty Campbell died at the age of 82 on 13 October 2017, having been ill for several months.