Hackney (Dalston) Black History Walk

This  walk  recognises 75 years since the SS Windrush arrived  from the Caribbean. It covers from the 1950s up to the 2000s
About this Event

This walk recognises 61 years since the first Race Relations Act of 1965 and the20th anniversary of African Odysseys and Black History Walks.

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

• 60 years of Black British Civil Rights Professor Gus John
• Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip/River cruise
• Frantz Fanon film and talk
• Reparations, new film by 90s TV icon Chrystal Rose
• Remembering Joy Gardner: Black Lives Matter 1993
• Black Women and Film Exhibition
• Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies
• Mayfair, Hackney, Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
• I fought the law and I won, a Black judge on 60 years of Equality legislation
• Champion Black Boxers and businessmen in 1800s London:
• South Africa’s London Recruits

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.

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

About African Odysseys . Previously at the BFI Southbank for 18 years, African Odysseys is now hosting films across London due to systemic racism at the BFI which ignored a18,400 strong petition and cancelled the popular,monthly programme there. Full details HERE