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
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