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Princess Campbell MBE was born on 9th July 1939 in Kingston, Jamaica. Her family always listened to the radio and heard the invitation ‘Your mother country needs you’. Princess told us that she had no idea what the Mother Country’ was but it sounded like a good place and many of her young relatives and neighbours were leaving home for other countries, to find a better life.  So Princess, aged 23, encouraged by her mother, took a ship (just like the now famous Windrush) to Eng

Growing up with five brothers and sisters in a terraced London house, Frank Bruno started at age 9 at the local Wandsworth Boys Club. He learned to box seriously while at Oak Hall School in Sussex, an establishment for ‘problem’ children. As an amateur boxer he amassed a 20-1 career, losing only to (and eventually beating) Joe Christie while representing the Philip Game Amateur Boxing Club.His amateur career culminated with Frank boxing for Young England and becoming the you

The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom which aimed to address racial discrimination and promote racial equality. The commission was established in 1976, and disbanded in 2007 when its functions were taken over by the newly created Equality and Human Rights Commission. History The Commission was established by the Race Relations Act 1976, under James Callaghan's Labour government.