Betty Campbell
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Wales' first black headteacher, respected educationalist and academic.
EARLY LIFE
Betty Campbell was born Betty Johnson in Butetown, Cardiff in 1934. The area was formerly known as Tiger Bay, it built up around Cardiff docklands and was .one of the UK's first multi-cultural communities. Betty's father was killed in World War Two, when his ship The Ocean Vanguard was torpedoed in 1942, and her mother was a street bookmaker. She won a scholarship to Cardiff's Lady Margaret High School for Girls. Betty wanted to be a teacher from a young age, but faced discouragement from one of her teachers who told her the problems would be "insurmountable". She became pregnant at the age of 17, while she was doing her A levels and left school when she married Robert Campbell in 1953.
CAREER
In 1960 she discovered that Cardiff Traning College was taking on female students, she resurrected her dream of becoming a teacher, applied and was accepted.