Cinema eyes by una marson biography
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Cinema eyes by una marson biography
Una Marson
Jamaican writer and activist (1905–1965)
Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965)[1] was a Jamaicanfeminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes.
She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC, during World War II.[2] In 1942, she became producer of the programme Calling the West Indies, turning it into Caribbean Voices, which became an important forum for Caribbean literary work.
Her biographer Delia Jarrett-Macauley described her (in The Life of Una Marson, 1905–1965) as the first "Black British feminist to speak out against racism and sexism in Britain".[3] British civil rights leader Billy Strachan credited Una Marson with educating him on political and racial issues.[4]
Early years, 1905–1932
Una Marson was born on 6 February 1905, at Sharon Mission House, Sharon village, near Santa Cruz, Jamaica, in the parish of St Eliz