Died 1989 | ||
Jenny hyslop at polychrome fine arts
Jenny Hyslop (1898–1989) was a Scottish community and disability rights activist. She joined the Communist party in the early 1920s. 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. From 1938-1946 she served as the councillor for Clydebank's 5th Ward. She also planned rescues during the Clydebank Blitz in 1941, which destroyed her home as well as others'. She was a senior air raid warden during World War II - the first female ARP Sectional Head in the West of Scotland.
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In 1955, she became secretary of her local branch of the Voluntary Association for Handicapped Persons. She later worked for the Disablement Advisory Committee. 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. Also in 1978, she was chosen as the Evening Times' Scotswoman of the Year.