Jenny Hyslop

Jenny Hyslop (1898–1989) was a Scottish community and disability rights activist.[1][2] She joined the Communist party in the early 1920s.[3] She moved to Clydebank in 1921, and helped to plan the campaign against pre-war rent increases and fighting against the evictions of rent strikers there.[2][3] From 1938-1946 she served as the councillor for Clydebank's 5th Ward.[2] She also planned rescues during the Clydebank Blitz in 1941, which destroyed her home as well as others'.[2][4] She was a senior air raid warden during World War II - the first female ARP Sectional Head in the West of Scotland.[2]

In 1955, she became secretary of her local branch of the Voluntary Association for Handicapped Persons.[2] She later worked for the Disablement Advisory Committee.[2] In 1971, the Voluntary Association for Handicapped Persons began to raise money for a home for people with disabilities, and she opened the home in 1978.[2] Also in 1978, she was chosen as the Evening Times' Scotswoman of the Year.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Janet Hyslop".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Jenny Hyslop".
  3. 1 2 Neil C. Rafeek (30 May 2008). Communist Women in Scotland: Red Clydeside from the Russian Revolution to the End of the Soviet Union. I.B.Tauris. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-0-85771-154-0.
  4. ↑ "Clydebank Blitz".
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