Alice Cameron
English educator (1891 – 1964)
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Alice Mackenzie Cameron (1891 – 1964) was a British educator who campaigned against unemployment.
Cameron studied at Somerville College, Oxford in 1910, and received her BA and MA in 1920.[1][2] She became a tutor for the Oxford University Extension Delegacy when one of her professors, Sandie Lindsay, gave her some of his philosophy classes to teach.[3] Her career lay in adult education, including giving women-only classes.[4][5]
In 1927, she founded the Lincoln People's Service Club to support men unemployed during the Great Depression.[6][7][8] Her other activities with the Workers' Educational Association involved leading a protest against the withholding of coal from unemployed families in 1934 alongside Mary Toomer.[9]
She was the author of Civilisation and the Unemployed and In pursuit of justice: the story of Hugh Lister and his friends in Hackney Wick.[10]