On International Women's Day 2020, we want to bring the story of the groundbreaking Yvonne Connolly who became Britain's first female black headteacher in 1969.

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She talks about arriving to a cold, grey UK from Jamaica in the early 60s and working her way up the teaching profession. When she was made headmistress of a London primary school she received racist abuse from some people but refused to let them define her relationship with the children she taught.

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