Notting Hill

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    • Bruce Kendrick
      • Minister United reform church
      • Lived in Notting Hill: appalled by conditions  Caribbeans forced to live
      • 1965 founded Notting Hill housing trust
      • Aim to provide decent houses at affordable rents 
      • 1970 housed 1000 people improve lives
    • Oswald Mosley
      • Led Union movement far right group
      • Slogan ‘keep Britain white’
      • Offices in Notting Hill
      • Offices deliberately established there to make black community fearful
      • 1959 general election Mosley ran for parliament seat: received 8% of votes: never recovered from defeat
      • Motivated discriminatory behaviours
      • Supported Hitler WW2 
      • Imprisoned for speculation of being a traitor
    • Claudia Jones and West Indian Gazette
      • Deported from USA in 1955 because of civil rights activities
      • Move to Britain 1958: set up West Indian gazette: Britain’s first major newspaper for black people
      • 1950s newspapers: few ways of spreading information and ideas
      • Allowed black people a voice
      • Persuaded London transport to allow black people to rise to senior positions
      • Campaign against 1962 CW immigration act: restricted immigration from black CW countries
      • Offices in South London received abusive and racist mail
      • Persuade West Indian gazette sponsor Caribbean carnival 1959
    • Frank Crichlow and the Mangrove
      • Police raided Mangrove look for drugs none found
      • Furious at police action nine raids between a few months
      • British Black Panther help organise a protest march
      • Over 150 people took part in march
      • Police monitored march and Mangrove’s customers
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