| Dr Derrick Campbell |
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 Derrick Campbell was born in Handworth Birmingham. He attended his local primary schools and the local Emmanuel Hall church. His parents split up when he was six but despite challenges with accommodation and looking after a small family his mother was able to instil some important principles. He was bullied every day at school. This and his difficult home circumstances made him become somewhat timid. Through secondary schooling Derrick was always in the bottom sets as Black pupils were not allowed to be in the top sets at that time. He always wanted to be a male nurse and studied subjects that he hoped would help him achieve this ambition. This set him apart from the crowd and contributed to him being bullied. Working part time after school and during the weekend he put himself through college. One of his jobs was as a hospital porter. He came to realise that he could not cope with the hospital environment as he often wanted to help those really ill but found he couldn’t. Always looking to find ways around obstacles he changed direction and went to University, but he was thrown out after a year and trained as an electrician. In applying for an electrician post with Wolverhampton Borough Council he was offered a job as an officer! Believing in himself he returned to education part-time and climbed up the ranks to hold the post of Principal Officer, the first ever Black post holder. After a few years he received a phone call alerting him to a new post that was again to make him a First. He applied for and was successful in his appointment as the Chief Executive of Sandwell Chamber of Commerce, the first Black man to hold such a post within the long established Chamber of Commerce and Business Links networks across the UK. Derrick was particularly keen to develop inclusive service delivery to include the BME business community, who previously had been neglected. Two-and-a-half-years later, a new challenge presented itself and Derrick was asked to apply for the post of Chief Executive of Race Equality Sandwell, a new organisation. Derrick has continued his academic life and has a PhD in theology. He is an ordained Minister and sees his faith as being at the core of everything he does.
emma
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| i love him because he stand up for hisself and know's wat he wants to achive i love his atittude to his work he tought us today about wat he done and i think it was so bracve of him to face his faers and be courageus |
michael willey
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| it's not da bum dat racists still operate vorldpeace is vot ve need |
michael willeywangfunk
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| equel rights 4 every1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this guy has done good 2 get into top sets, cos there's still racism around. mikly xxxxx |
Dylan Williams and ewan wallace and tom minchin n michael willy
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| Hi, we r cool. We dont like racism at all. People should think how things that come out of there mouth may make black people think. Its so not bumting that black people are a minority like this. Its harsh. No black bofs are aloud in our class. how sad. x |
Ewan Wallace, Tom Minchin, Michael Willyfunnk
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| We thing its great that despite all the predjudice he managed to achieve highly. |
Jacob Mcque & Tom Minchin
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| we think its slack the way that black people couldn't be in top-sets. we are in yr 8 and are in top sets for most things. in a way we're glad to see black people in most of our sets too. and we are also glad to see them being as succsesful as white people |
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