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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]
Perec "Peter" Rachman (16 August 1919 – 29 November 1962) was a Polish-born landlord who operated in Notting Hill, London, England, in the 1950s and early 1960s.He became notorious for his exploitation of his tenants, with the word "Rachmanism" entering the Oxford English Dictionary as a synonym for the exploitation and intimidation of tenants.
The restaurant was opened in 1968 by Trinidadian community activist and civil rights campaigner Frank Crichlow.It was located at 8 All Saints Road, Notting Hill, in West London, [1] Like the El Rio before it – a coffee bar run by Crichlow at 127 Westbourne Park Road in the early 1960s that attracted attention in the Profumo affair [2] – the Mangrove was a meeting place for the Black ...
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.
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 ...
The 1958 St Ann's riots, also known as the Nottingham riots or the Nottingham race riots, was a racially motivated riot on 23 August 1958 in the suburb of St Ann's in Nottingham. [1] Racism after post-war immigration from the Caribbean led to racial tensions, which exploded into clashes in the summer of 1958.