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5 unusual facts about Claudia Jones


Claudia Jones

Jones's most well-known lasting contribution in the UK is considered to be the Notting Hill Carnival.

Supported by her friends Trevor Carter, Nadia Cattouse, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Beryl McBurnie, Pearl Prescod and her lifelong mentor Paul Robeson, Jones campaigned against racism in housing, education and employment.

In 1955, Jones began her sentence of a year and a day at the Federal Reformatory for Women at Alderson, West Virginia.

Dayo Gore

Vicki Garvin is again highlighted alongside other unjustly forgotten organizers, activists and intellectuals such as Thelma Dale, the artist Beulah Richardson, and the communist leader Claudia Jones.

Notting Hill Carnival

This carnival organised by Claudia Jones from Trinidad and Tobago, who is widely recognised as "the Mother of the Notting Hill Carnival", was a huge success, despite being held indoors.



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Notting Hill Carnival

A street party for neighbourhood children turned into a carnival procession when Russell Henderson's steel band (who had played at the earlier Claudia Jones events) went on a walkabout.