THE CAROL TAYLOR WORD

CAROL TAYLOR BIO

Carol Taylor R.N.

590 Flatbush Avenue

Suite #11A

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. 11225-4935

Telephone: (718) 856 1271

E-mail:littleblackbook@juno.com

Web Site:http:// www.racismtest.com

Born: Boston, Massachusetts, 27 December 1931

First Black U.S. Flight Attendant 1958

New York State Registered Nurse Bellevue Hospital 1952-55

Elmira College, New York University - Languages & Economics, Undergraduate

Professional/Work Experience

Hospital, Private Duty and Industrial Nursing, Executive Secretary & Office Manager-International Scientific, Ltd.; Executive Secretary to Lord Beaverbrook's son, William Montague, Barbados, W.I.

Assistant Manager: Connor Theatrical Agency, London, England

Managing Executive, Innerlight International (Health Advocacy), U.S.

Business Representative, Optimal Telecom, U.S.

Manager: Collier's Encyclopedia Office, Barbados, W.I.

Freelance Journalist: London - Flamingo Magazine; in Barbados: The Nation, The Advocate,

The Daily News, The Observer - newspapers; The Bajan, Hers, The Barbados Nursing Journal, magazines; in New York, U.S., The City Sun, The Daily Challenge, Caribbeat, Our Time, The Black Star, The New York Amsterdam News, newspapers

Television Presenter: Barbados, W.I. Did this country's first television ad on the Government-sponsored station 1964;had own TV advertising program

Model: New York City, U.S. Barbados, W.I., London, England

Public Speaker - churches, private organizations, student government unions, NYC Administration for Children Services, DeWitt Historical Society of Ithaca, N.Y. and Southern District Community Center of Ithaca, Nassau & Suffolk Counties Multicultural Committee Board, Human Rights Commission of Rockland County, NYU, City College, Bronx Community College, Hunter College, Lawrence College, Keane College and many others

Promoter of the Ion Cleanse – New Vital Health Modality

Volunteering Experience

President/Founder: The Institute For "Interracial" Harmony, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, charitable organization in New York State. (Motto: "Prejudice Is Learned: It Can Be Unlearned")

Law Revision: Laws of Dominica, W.I. in London, England

Helped to start Barbados, W.I. first Consumer Union; served as President

Member: Barbados Standardization Board: Barbados Journalists Association: Member of the Commission to Liberalize the Abortion Law of Barbados

Planned & Implemented Barbados, W.I. first Women's Political Caucus

Started International Women's Year celebrations in Barbados after discovering in December 1974 (only one month before the IWY, that there were no national plans in that island to celebrate this important Year. Named and held The Barbados International Year Steering Committee first meeting; had a local artist design IWY posters, turtleback IWY pins and promoted an IWY Woman of the Year Contest

Was responsible for contacting Canadian Prime Minister Gary Trudeau-appointed Florence Byrd (Canadian Enquiry Into the Status of Women in Canada), which ultimately led, through her good offices, to the establishment of a similar Enquiry Into The Status of Women in Barbados

Worked with a Bajan group to, for the first time ever, bring the famous poet, Derek Walcott and his Acting Ensemble from Trinidad to perform in Barbados

Publications

Social activism commentary articles in newspapers and magazines (copies available upon request); The Little Black Book: Black Male Survival in America: Staying Alive & Well in an Institutionally Racist Society (available in bookstores locally and nationally and in over 100 public libraries in the U.S., Canada and Barbados, W.I.) Started the first health magazine in Barbados, W.I.: The Barbados Nursing Journal. Helped start the island's first women's magazine, Hers

Activism Experience

Inventor of the Racism/Colorism Quotient Test which determines the relative degree of racism/colorism within the individual, with psychologist Dr. Mari Saunders. We are currently administering examinations with the R/CQT Program with - staff, students and organizations, college president, Sociology Department Head, Brooklyn, NY Supreme Court judges - MultiCultural Advisory Boards, psychologists at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice - people finding themselves in difficulties with society's institutionally-conditioned racism/colorism (i.e. Texaco, Denny's, Avis, ATT&T, Coca Cola, John Rocker, Marge Schott, Andy Rooney, Rudy Buchanan, Chris Evert, James MacEnroe, Al Campanis, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, John Ashcroft, Loew's-type discrimination problems, the use of the divisive misnomer, "multiracial," - there's only one race: the human one – on the U.S. Government Census forms). We are introducing the concept of racism/colorism-testing and follow-up counseling for participants in jurisprudence proceedings in the U.S. courts and reconditioning Programs for schools, police departments (nationwide), government and private sector institutions

Met with President John F. Kennedy at the White house in Washington, D.C. in 1963 at a Reception for Black Leaders (Photo by White House Photographer Cecil Stoughton - available upon request)

Testified as Racism/Colorism Expert for the United Afrikan Movement organization before Judge Maldonado, City of New York Commission on Human Rights, March 1997

Met the Hon. Malcom X at The March on Washington, D.C. in 1963 while covering that event for the London-based publication, Flamingo magazine

Recreation Experiences

Traveled extensively to: Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Anguilla, Nevis, St. Kitts, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Antigua, Jamaica, St. Vincent, St. Lucia in the West Indies; England, France, Ireland, Canada, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, and Nova Scotia and to many of the other states in the U.S.

Water skiing, horseback riding, hiking, ice skating, rollerblading, swimming, tennis, croquet, volleyball, table tennis, billiards, scrabble, Monopoly, bridge, bid whist, Uno, dominoes, soccer(single and mixed-gender teams), folk dancing, horticulture, animal husbandry, blowing bubbles, track, basketball, shooting, bowling, sailing, Chinese checkers, Boggle, tag, marbles, backgammon, double dutch, badminton, horse shoes, snow sledding, hopscotch, hockey(ice and grass), shuffleboard, archery, hide & seek, checkers, wari, peek-a-boo, pick-up-sticks, solitaire, hearts, war, gin rummy, softball, jacks, Trivial Pursuit, crosswords, darts, Free Cell, camping, tic tac toe, baseball, fishing, and reading

Featured in Media

Winter 1996 edition of Flightlog magazine (published by the Association of U.S. Flight Attendants)

February 1999 (Black History Month) in Airways magazine ("Breaking The Barrier") 3 pages Jet, NY, Ebony, Boston Globe, Global Black Woman magazines; in newspapers - Atlantic City Press, Daily News, Daily Challenge, Newsday, New York Times, New Jersey Star Ledger, New York Amsterdam News, City Sun, Herald Tribune, among others locally and internationally. In books: Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Sciences; New York Characters - 4 pages

August 1999: Centerpiece of the WABC TV Program, "Eyewitness To The Century," news program

Parenting Experiences

Mother of Cindy, Larry and Grand Mother of Tyler

Awards

(Some of them)

Elliotorian Businesswomen's Association 1958; Lion's Club of Barbados, W.I. 1976; "Honor Carol Taylor Day," from the National Action Network (Rev. Al Sharpton & Rev. Wyatt T. Walker) 1996; "Africans United For Sanity Now! (Sister Jean W. Dember) 1993; The National Black Afrikan Holocaust Organization (Bro. Eric Muhammad 1994); Innerlight Visionaries Award for Top Recruiter 1997; 'Raising Horizons,' Organization of Black Airline Pilots, Inc. 1998; Certificate of Excellence (for "Writing That Little Black Book") at John Jay College of Criminal Justice by Bloods & Crips 2001; Flatbush Boys and Girls Clubhouse Cultural Enrichment Department 2000

Autobiography Completed – Seeking Publisher

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