Hackney Black History Walk

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
  • Hackneys black activism and its pioneering role in housing equality
  • Sus and Operation Jackpot, the Freeway Rick Ross  Los Angeles connection
  • Black British Civil Rights : Hackney Black Peoples 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

Other coming events from Black History Walks

  • Black History Walks in London Volume 1 book signings
  • African Superheroes day
  • Black History Theatre walk
  • Black history helicopter tour
  • How Black people won World War Two
  • Harlem in Mayfair
  • St Paul’s/Bank Black History Walk
  • 17 Years of success: African Odysseys, a review

‘Black History Walks in London Volume 1’ is out NOW! 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. ‘Black History Walks in London Volume 1’ is the 20th of that series 

Also see our GCSE History book from Pearson part based on our Notting Hill walk, see  HERE

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