Hackney (Dalston) Black History Walk (27 May)

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2018 marks several major anniversaries •  50 years since MLK was assassinated• 60 Years since the Notting Hill Racist Riots • 60 years since the establishment of the West Indian Standing Conference• 70 years of Windrush, 100 years since the end of World War 1 and 100 years of Women having the vote.

This  walk  recognises 70 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, reggage, 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