[ldn] WC1 May 21: two films on London black history: Notting Hill & Southall

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Sertuc Film Club - Double Bill - 21st May
Discussion with filmmaker - Colin Prescod

From you were black, you were out
Describes the condition in the 1950s in Ladbroke Grove a decaying inner london area.

A town under siege
Focuses on how Southall organised to resist Racist and Fascist attacks between 1976 and 1981.

2 films (from 4 part series) by Colin Prescod made for Channel 4 at the beginning of the 1980s, chart the milestones in black people’s fight for justice Including -Notting Hill in 1958 and the death of anti-fascist Blair Peach.

The films reveal, in these histories, how unities across communities were forged so that black became a political colour, not the colour of one’s skin, how racism has changed over time and how state institutions have been forced to move in response to black challenges.

7-10pm
Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS

FREE, but register here: http://www.tuc.org.uk/tuc/regions_info_southeast.cfm
 
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