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The Notting Hill race riots feature prominently in the Colin MacInnes novel Absolute Beginners (1959) and the 1986 film of the same name. On 29 September 1958, Hot Summer Night premiered in the UK centring on a white family struggling to accept their daughter's love for a black Jamaican man.
The Mangrove Nine were a group of British Black activists tried for inciting a riot at a 1970 protest against the police targeting of The Mangrove, a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, West London. Their trial lasted 55 days and involved various challenges by the Nine to the legitimacy of the British judicial process. [1]
The Mangrove was a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, London, England. It was founded in 1968 and run by civil rights activist Frank Crichlow , eventually closing in 1992. It is known for the trial of a group of British black activists dubbed "the Mangrove Nine ", who were tried for inciting a riot at a 1970 protest against the police ...
1958: Notting Hill race riots between White British and West Indian immigrants. 1968: Rioting outside the United States Embassy in Grosvenor Square in opposition to the Vietnam War. 1974: Red Lion Square disorders happened following a march by counter-fascists against the National Front. 1976: Riots during the Notting Hill Carnival.
Maj-Britt V. Morrison (née Sandberg, 1932 – 7 February 2006) was a Swedish woman who was known for being the victim of an assault that sparked off the 1958 Notting Hill race riots [1] which escalated from there, [2] and as the author of the best-seller Jungle West 11.
Mosley was born on 16 November 1896 at 47 Hill Street, Mayfair, London. [11] He was the eldest of the three sons of Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet (1873–1928), and Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote (1873–1948), [ 12 ] daughter of Captain Justinian Edwards-Heathcote , of Apedale Hall , Staffordshire .
Notting Hill was at the time a stronghold for Oswald Mosley's Union Movement and Colin Jordan's White Defence League. The previous year, race riots had broken out in that area. The detective investigating the cases was initially convinced that the youths' motive was robbery , but Cochrane's lack of money was explained by his fiancée, as ...
Claudia Vera Jones (née Cumberbatch; 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist.As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". [1]