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ROSEMARY BROWN: politician/university professor
The YWCA's Woman of Distinction for Humanitarian and Community Activities for 1987 has long been described as a legend in her time. Born in Kingston, Jamaica on June 17 1930, she migrated to Canada in 1951 to study at McGill University where she completed her BA in 1955. Later she went to the University of British Columbia where she completed the BSW in 1962 and the MSW in 1965.
She made her name as a politician when she was first elected to the British Columbia Legislature in 1972. She was reelected in 1975, 1979 and again in 1983. She was a candidate for the federal leadership of the NDP in 1974. She holds the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Mt. St. Vincent University, and in 1973 was awarded a Human Rights Fellowship by the United Nations. She also received the national Coalition of Canada award in 1973 and the Black Historical and Cultural Society of BC award in 1984.
A founding member of the Vancouver Status of Women Council, she is a founding member-trainer of volunteers for the Vancouver Crisis Centre. She has participated in many national and international conferences on peace, women's issues and human rights.
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