In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women who supported the Movement for Colonial Freedom.
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Further Resources:
Carole Boyce-Davies, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke University Press 2008)
Brief history of the MCF and Details of MCF Archive- https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/archives/2014/05/01/the-movement-for-colonial-freedom-liberation-archive/
Nadia Cattouse, ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCPgtze4yg
Carmen Munroe winning the 2016 Edric Connor Inspiration Award- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5B_pgrQdIQ
Interview with ‘Desmond’s’ creator Trix Worrell alongside Carmen Munroe, Ram John Holder and Robbie Gee- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKX7u3srcxk
Eslanda Robeson, An African Journey- https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79694
Map of Eslanda Robeson's travels in Africa- http://digitizingdiaspora.com/neatline/show/eslandarobesontravels
Claudia Jones, 'An End To The Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!' - https://libcom.org/files/claudiajones.pdf
Claudia Jones leading a march in the UK- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvr1h11IEnY&t=87s
Brief history of Claudia Jones-https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/claudia-jones-rebel-heart#footnote24
Histories of Black British Protest- https://theconversation.com/bearing-witness-to-the-history-of-black-lives-in-britain-140776
The MCF's/Liberation's website-https://liberationorg.co.uk/
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