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

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PHOTOS Too left : Police with truncheons and bin lids Top right Inside grassroots newspaper, providing a detailed account for the events under the banner ‘Carnival jump-up’ Middle left: Grassroots newspaper cover , ‘Carnage 76’ Middle right : Police take cover from bricks with bin lids Bottom Policeman watching crowds 160 | Coming of Age Coming of Age Final version 16.10.indd 160 17/10/2017 12:08
Stafford Scott Coordinator of Tottenham Rights The Uprising that they wish to forget August 1976 I had just turned 16 and was excited at the thought of attending my first Notting Hill carnival as an ‘adult’. I had been to the carnival the previous year but had gone on the ‘Family Sunday’ as a 15 year old school kid with some of my classmates. It had been fun, but this year I was going to Carnival with my brother and his friends on the biggest day of the 2-day event. This was going to be the real carnival that I’d seen on the black and white pictures in the press and on TV. Only this year I was going to be a part of it. I went expecting to see the colourful floats filled with happy smiling brothers and sisters adorned in their finest carnival outfits. I went expecting to hear the sound of the steel bands filling the air with the sunny Caribbean beats some of Calypso and SOCA. But most of all I Coming of Age | 161 Coming of Age Final version 16.10.indd 161 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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Police arrest 2 demonstrators after
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26 June 1976 Labour MP for Ealing-S
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01 September 1976 Demands for publi
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PHOTOS CAPTION. Above : Southall Un
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The need for unity : an interview w
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This was happening not to me alone,
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HP: How did the Commonwealth Immigr
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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
Page 129 and 130: weren’t many women involved in SY
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 and 144: Laxmiben Patel Harsha Ahyave, talks
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Page 149 and 150: Struggles in India I was also keepi
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Page 153 and 154: We worked with Jayaben to persuade
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Page 159: 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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Page 179 and 180: When Black was a political colour:
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Page 189 and 190: Art, Activism, Race and Social Just
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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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