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

Other coming events from Black History Walks www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

Black History Walks in London Volume 1 book signings
Reclaiming Cocoa film 21st June
City of a million dreams film 12th July
How to teach Black History at GCSE level
Mayfair, Traflagar Square, Notting Hill, Regents Canal and Theatre walks
Black history bus tour/river cruise/ helicopter tour
How Black people won World War Two
Secrets of Soho Black History Walk
Black History Canal cruise
18 Years of African Odysseys films, racism @BFI

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.

A lso see our GCSE History book from Pearson part based on our Notting Hill walk, see image below

Hackney (Dalston) Black History Walk