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Hackney (Dalston) Black History Walk

  • Meeting point address is available on request Dalston London, England United Kingdom (map)

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. Black History Walks 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

£14.

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