| 词条 | Amy Barbour-James |
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| name = Amy Barbour-James | image = Amy Barbour-James.jpg | alt = | caption = Amy Barbour-James in the mid-1930s[1] | birth_name = Caroline Amy Aileen Barbour-James | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|01|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Acton, London | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|05|04|1906|01|25|df=y}} | death_place = Harrow | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = Civil rights activist | notable_works = }} Amy Barbour-James (25 January 1906 – 4 May 1988) was a London-born Guyanese Black civil rights activist and civil servant. Early life and familyCaroline Amy Aileen Barbour-James was born in Acton, London,[2] on 25 January 1906[3] to Guyanese parents, John and Caroline Barbour-James,[4] one of their eight children.[1] The Barbour-James family were a middle-class family who lived in west London in the early 20th century. Her father, John Barbour-James worked as administrator in West Africa[2] and had access to a large network of contacts throughout the continent. In 1918, he founded the African Patriotic Intelligence Bureau. ActivismInspired by her father, Barbour-James became active in the civil rights movements and was involved in the African Progress Union and the League of Coloured Peoples, becoming secretary of later organisation in 1942. In 2011, a short drama based on Barbour-James's life was broadcast by BBC Radio 4.[5] DeathBarbour-James died in Harrow on 4 May 1988. References1. ^1 Amy Barbour-James. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 14 February 2016. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Barbour-James, Amy}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.jeffreygreen.co.uk/amy-barbour-james-and-the-league-of-coloured-peoples-1942 |title=005: Amy Barbour-James & the League of Coloured Peoples 1942 « Jeffrey Green. Historian |website=Jeffreygreen.co.uk |date= |accessdate=15 February 2016}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Green|first1=Jeffrey|title=Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain, 1901–1914|date=1998|publisher=Frank Cass|location=London [u.a.]|isbn=0714644269|page=71}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Photograph of Amy Barbour-James: About the object |url= http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/about_the_object/photograph_of_amy_barbour_james |website=Teaching History with 100 Objects |publisher= The British Museum |accessdate=13 February 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fssr3 |title=Writing the Century 11: 1963–1966 - All My Trials, Episode 1, Excerpt from: All My Trials |publisher=BBC Radio 4|work=15 Minute Drama|date= |accessdate=2016-02-15}} 5 : 1906 births|1988 deaths|Civil rights activists|People from Acton, London|Black British people |
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