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Hackney (Dalston) Black History Walk

Sunday 4 May

This walk recognises 75 years since the SS Windrush arrived from the Caribbean. It covers from the 1950s up to the 2000s,

 

In association with Hackney History Festival.

This walk recognises 75 years since the SS Windrush arrived from the Caribbean.This tour starts with the 1950’s and goes right up to the 21st century. We will cover:

  • Black music history soul, reggae, rave and acid: the legendary 4 Aces
  • Blue plaques to Black people and how they get ripped off
  • Hackneys black activism and its pioneering role in housing equality
  • Sus and Operation Jackpot, the Rick Ross connection
  • Black British Civil Rights : Hackney Community Defence Association, Colin Roach and others
  • Revolution via reading: Black bookshops, Maarifa, Centerprise
  • Gentrification and social cleansing
  • Education and the Black child, from grassroots campaigns to national change
  • Race Relations 1965, 1968,1976 the reasons, the impact, the legacies
  • The rise of the black church, James Baldwin

Look out for ‘Black History Walks in London Volume 1’. This is part of Jacaranda Books revolutionary Twenty in 2020 initiative to publish 20 books by 20 Black British authors in 2020.

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