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247: 261:, Oxford's MP, they founded the Oxford Committee for Racial Integration, forerunner to Oxfordshire Council for Community Relations, and she became a full-time community relations officer . 242:, Oxford. And she devoted most of the next few years to looking after their seven children (two of whom died at a young age). In 1955 Dummett travelled with her husband to the 201:, then a poor working-class part of the city, And the family were so 'hard up' that Kitty "sometimes pretended she had eaten earlier to have enough food to feed her". 742: 727: 265: 223:
in Hertfordshire She performed exceptionally at the latter, and unusually for a young woman of her background, won a scholarship to read modern history at
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For a complete bibliography (and an introduction to her work) see "Ann Dummett's Contribution to the Understanding of Immigration and Racism" (2015).
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when we were five or six ... an old chap gave her sixpence ... impressed she was translating Ancient Greek from the
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She was a child prodigy, being able to read at the age of two. A 'lifelong friend' Jill Kaye recalled that "at the
177:; 4 September 1930 – 7 February 2012) was an English activist, campaigner for racial justice and published author. 77: 747: 193:(1882–1949) and artist Kathleen ('Kitty') née Ridge (1901–1988). At the time of her birth her parents lived in 313: 39: 560: 694: 251: 689: 722: 717: 186: 664: 239: 656: 606: 543: 446: 399: 360: 347: 334: 321: 288: 668: 633: 648: 492: 438: 409: 596: 442: 269: 235: 105: 357:
Racially Motivated Crime: responses in three European cities: Frankfurt, Lyons and Rome
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Dummett died on 7 February 2012 in Oxford, six weeks after the death of her husband.
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by Sue Shutter, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants blog (10 February 2012)
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Ann attended Guildhouse School in Pimlico, London, and then, having fled
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Ann (as she was always known) was born on 4 September 1930 at
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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St George Hanover Square
Ware Grammar School for Girls
Somerville College, Oxford
Sir Michael Dummett
Arthur Chesney
Edmund Gwenn
Cecil Kellaway
Alec Kellaway
Westminster Hospital
Arthur Chesney
Pimlico
Battersea
British Museum
Rosetta Stone
the blitz
Ware Grammar School
Somerville College
MA
Michael Dummett
Church of St Edmund and St Frideswide
University of California, Berkeley
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Martin Luther King Jr.
Evan Luard
Institute of Race Relations
Runnymede Trust
ISBN
0140216073
Ian Martin
National Council for Civil Liberties

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