Amy Barbour-James
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| caption = Amy Barbour-James in the mid-1930s[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp124167/amy-barbour-james "Amy Barbour-James"]. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
| 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, London
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| known_for = Civil rights activist
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Amy Barbour-James (25 January 1906 – 4 May 1988) was a British-born Guyanese Black civil rights activist and civil servant.
Early life and family
Caroline Amy Aileen Barbour-James was born in Acton, London,{{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= 5 January 2010|accessdate=15 February 2016}} on 25 January 1906{{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}} to Guyanese parents, John and Caroline Barbour-James,{{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}} one of their eight children. 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 and had access to a large network of contacts throughout the continent. In 1918, he founded the African Patriotic Intelligence Bureau.
Activism
Inspired 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 the latter organisation in 1942.
In 2011, a short drama based on Barbour-James's life was broadcast by BBC Radio 4.{{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= 18 March 2011|accessdate=2016-02-15}}
Death
Barbour-James died in Harrow on 4 May 1988, aged 82.
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Category:British civil rights activists
Category:British women civil rights activists
Category:People from Acton, London