Music was an important part of Betty’s Campbell’s life. The lyrics of her favourite song, Something Inside So Strong by Labi Siffre can be found in the monument. 

When sculptor Eve Shepherd was creating the monument, she put together a playlist of Betty Campbell’s most loved songs that Eve listened to constantly while working. Here it is:

Betty Campbell loved to read. Many of her favourite books and the names of those authors, activists and change-makers who influenced her feature in the statue. 

Betty Campbell would often share the ideas from the books she read with her fellow teachers, pupils and friends. Thanks to the monument - this is still happening. 

Here are some of the books that Betty Campbell love and some that influenced sculptor Eve Shepherd while she created the monument. 

•  The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, by Sojourner Truth

• The Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela

• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr, Edited by Clayborne Carson

• Rosa Parks, My Story by Rosa Parks

• Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest and Poet, by Pauli Murray

• I Know why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou 

• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, by Olaudah Eqquiano

• Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean McMahon Humez