ernest marke there, talking to the bbc back in 1989. history each month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all of ourfilms, along with more than 1,000 radio programmes, in our online archive. head to... next, when yvonne conolly became britain's first black female head teacher in 1969, she received so many racist threats she needed a minder for her first day in the job. yvonne told us how she refused to let prejudice define her relationship with the children she taught. archive: there is no | colour problem at ring cross infant school. mrs yvonne conolly has to be thanked for that. i but there is an awful lot . of love, most of it for her. she is london's first - west indian head teacher, and what a hit she is withi the kids, all 200 of them. i'm yvonne, i'm yvonne conolly. i was one of the first black head teachers in inner london in 1969. i had done three years of teacher training injamaica, so i thought, "i'll come to britain." i came in august 1963. a grey, grey day. i wondered what i had done. i had planned to be here