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

Coming of Age : 1976 and the Road to Anti-Racism by Jagdish Patel and Suresh Grover

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John la Rose<br />

Top left :<br />

Samuel Selvon, John LaRose<br />

<strong>and</strong> Andrew Salkey. -<br />

founders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Caribbean<br />

Artists Movement.<br />

Top right :campaigning against<br />

aparthied<br />

Right: New Cross Massacre<br />

Action Committee demonstra<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

outside County Hall,<br />

London, in 1981. The inquest<br />

in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> deaths <strong>of</strong> thirteen<br />

young people in a New Cross<br />

house fire was due <strong>to</strong> begin.<br />

Picture: PA<br />

Bot<strong>to</strong>m left : John La Rose was<br />

<strong>the</strong> Chairman <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> New Cross<br />

Massacre Action<br />

Committee <strong>and</strong> gave tremendous<br />

support <strong>the</strong> bereaved<br />

families Some 20,000 people<br />

marched through<br />

central London on <strong>the</strong> Black<br />

People’s Day <strong>of</strong> Action in<br />

March 1981 (Pic: John Sturrock)<br />

Bot<strong>to</strong>m right : Poster made <strong>to</strong><br />

advertise <strong>the</strong> event<br />

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