Kathleen Wrasama
Kathleen Wrasama (* in Ethiopia ; † in England ) was an Ethiopia-born British community organizer.
life and work
Wrasama was welcomed by Church missionaries from Ethiopia as a child prior to World War I and then brought to England in 1917. She lived in a children's home in Yorkshire and the experiences there caused her to run away and find work as a farm worker. She moved to London in the 1930s and starred in Paul Robeson films. With her husband, she founded the Somali seaman's mission in Stepney and, in the 1950s, the Stepney Colored People's Association, which campaigned for the improvement of education and housing for blacks. In 1982 she told of her life in the East End of London in an interview for the BBC documentary "Surviving: Experience of Migration and Exile". After two school classes had seen the film, she was invited and interviewed by the students. In 2018, she was quoted by The Voice newspaper as one of eight black women, alongside Olive Morris , Connie Mark , Fanny Eaton , Diane Abbott , Lilian Bader , Margaret Busby and Mary Seacole , who helped transform British history.
literature
- Dawn Gill, Barbara Mayor, Maud Blair: Racism and Education: Structures and Strategies, 1992
Web links
- Question 100: The Black Women Who Changed British History
- Meet Varaidzo, the woman using Instagram to teach Black British history
- Kathleen Wrasama Black Cultural Archives 1980
- Kathleen Wrasama: Black British Women Activists Talk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wrasama, Kathleen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kathleen Warsama |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ethiopian-British community organizer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ethiopia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |