About this Event
On May 17th, a blue plaque honouring James Baldwin wil be unveiled at Hackney CVS.
Baldwin's 1985 visit to Hackney, as an international celebrity. highlights the strength of local anti-racist groups.
This interactive presentation will highlight some of those groups and the racist problems they overcame like; no Black history books in libraries or indeed no Black librarians, and link them to the better known struggles for equality in Notting Hill.
We will reference the Pearson GCSE history exam book based on our Notting Hill walk. This book is now used by 10,000 pupils in 140 schools across the country. We will also share local knowledge from our Hackney (Dalston) Black History Walk.
We will cover:
- Black economic empowerment
- Black British Civil rights
- Hackney Community Defence Association
- Hackney CVS, who was Adiaha Antigha ?
- Racism in housing and West Indian community solutions
- Black bookshops and white libraries
- The impact and legacy of CLR James
- The Rick Ross connection
- Police brutality before Black Lives Matter
- Jacaranda Books, Black women publishers and the fight to authentic Black stories
There will be a series of similar events between now and August hosted by Hackney Archives and Hackney libraries
Other events from www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk
- African Women Resistance Leaders: Political and Spiritual course Part 1
- 20 Banned Black films you need to see
- Fighting the Slavemaster Black History Walk
- How Black people won World War 2
- The economic impact of African hair, local and global
- The Little Mermaid's real Black History and the books to prove it
- Black History Walks Volume 1 book signing
- Black history bus tour
- Black history river cruise
- How to rip off Black historians
- Regent's Canal walk and cruise
- Harlem in Mayfair walk
Check out 'Black History Walks in London Volume 1' the first guidebook on the Black history in London's streets. This is part of Jacaranda Books revolutionary Twenty in 2020 initiative to publish 20 books by 20 Black British authors in 2020. An unprecedented feat. '
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, United Kingdom
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