Coming of Age : 1976 and the Road to Anti-Racism

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mainly Asian were scared, but not me. Must be that I am mad, I didn’t think, in my mind I just wanted a Union in this company and to support my workers and friends. I was young and I didn’t even think what is going to happen in my life, I just thought if there is a union, my life will be better. After some years I went to work for Chemilines, we women wanted a Union there but it didn’t happen. Later I worked for another factory who make security alarms. It was Friday 3pm and after working here for 13 years the manager tells me and 20 others, ‘don’t come to work on Monday, there is no work.’ I said ‘Why do you say this to me? I know this is unfair dismissal, there are other workers who don’t even come to work, who don’t even work when they are at work, but I can see you have made some people your favorites.’ Myself and 2 others went to the citizen advice bureau and there I saw Mahmoud who used to work for Grunwick. I told him, ‘if you can win this, then I will take the action.’ Then I found Fatima my lawyer and she told me, ‘I used to come and stand on the Grunwick picket line and I will win for you.’ We didn’t win at the tribunal, but we went to the higher courts in London. At this same time I found another factory job, but I was so scared that I must be on a black list that I didn’t say one word about the court date. I start a new job and I take off a day to fight unfair dismissal for the old job, and this time we won. I have been standing up all my life. The Grunwick strike lasted two years, and APEX is the trade union that supported us and paid us some wage. We had caravans to sit in when it was cold and the people in Willesden would open their front doors and give us tea. Many people, all these ordinary men and women were there. We didn’t win this fight but just think how many thousands and thousands of supporters came, from Yorkshire we had the Arthur Scargill and many miners, we had Jack Dromey, in London the Post Office and so many other trade unions supported us. There were hundreds of police and everything started from one little Asian lady, Jayaben Desai who had the guts.” Image left : Grunwick strikers picketing on Chapter Road, NW10. Laxmiben is stood to the far left. Coming of Age | 145 Coming of Age Final version 16.10.indd 145 17/10/2017 12:08
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Table of contents Introduction Sout
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Sisters began. These two organisati
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Coming of Age | 9 Coming of Age Fin
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Part 1 1919-1976 Coming of Age | 11
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Above : Left: Amin Hamid, pictured
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Introduction to Part 1 Since Britai
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founded by George Padmore in 1937 a
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Black 1919 : Riots, Racism and Resi
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‘Britishers first’ was the over
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Anxieties concerning class, public
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“I am seriously concerned at the
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secure the British Empire? Why can
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y without a plot, a Nigerian charac
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From resistance to rebellion : a jo
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PHOTOs : Top left Sir Oswald Mosley
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PHOTOs : Top left Demonstration aga
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From Resistance to Rebellion Reprod
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A racial division of labour (contin
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tute racial discrimination, and the
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was nationalised. If labour from th
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tin Luther King’s civil rights mo
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victory. (a Jamaican was shot and k
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Some issues, however, embraced the
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and Michael X. But Egbuna’s impri
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country to country before eventuall
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lentlessly persecuted its owner. Fr
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unionists to back the workers in of
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attacks on the ‘Asian invaders’
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In the same month, in the run-up to
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against the frame. The frame had to
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Claudia Jones Top left : Claudia Jo
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A Peoples’ Art is the Genesis of
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Kingdom together as never before, d
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Top left :Ben Okri, James Kelman an
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Changing Britannia through the Arts
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struggles of the masses of working
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cally had had to leave the Caribbea
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New Beacon provided stocks of books
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continuum and all have the issue of
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Part 2 1976 Coming of Age | 83 Comi
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Introduction to Part 2 As you have
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These individuals came to the Youth
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Timeline of events in 1976 03 Janua
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02 May 1976 New of the World headli
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Page 97 and 98: 01 September 1976 Demands for publi
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Page 101 and 102: PHOTOS CAPTION. Above : Southall Un
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Page 105 and 106: This was happening not to me alone,
Page 107 and 108: HP: How did the Commonwealth Immigr
Page 109 and 110: VS: There was the IWA and other org
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Page 113 and 114: Above : Almost immediately after th
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Page 117 and 118: Karamjit Chaggar The brother of Gur
Page 119 and 120: The famly received many letters of
Page 121 and 122: Suresh Grover Here, Suresh Grover o
Page 123 and 124: No one warned me of the approaching
Page 125 and 126: Left : Suresh Grover in 1976 swampe
Page 127 and 128: Avtar Brah How did you become polit
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Page 131 and 132: to women’s experiences. We had to
Page 133 and 134: Balraj Purewal How did you develop
Page 135 and 136: we identified with that and we like
Page 137 and 138: By the time we met them, Southall I
Page 139 and 140: Grunwick Dispute PHOTOS Above :Mass
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Page 143: Laxmiben Patel Harsha Ahyave, talks
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Page 159 and 160: Notting Hill ‘76 PHOTOS Top left,
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Page 167 and 168: Cecil Guztmore This article first a
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Page 173 and 174: Gurinder Chadha The folllowing is p
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Art, Activism, Race and Social Just
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Industrial disputes involving black
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Dec-70 Apr-71 Birmid Qualcast found
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Sep-73 Nov-73 Qualcast Lawn Moers S
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Aug-74 Aug-74 Kenilworth Components
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Jaqueline Jenkinson : Black Britain
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A Sivanandan : From Rebellion to Ri
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1980). 64. Juries, opined Sir Rober
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West Indian Gazette. 17. It was lat
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