The Claudia Jones Organisation/Careers Day Conference
Object
Poster
Production date
4/1987
Object number
1988.689
Physical Description
Poster for 'The Claudia Jones Organisation/Careers Day Conference', Hackney Town Hall
Associated Place
Material
Paper
Dimension
height (whole): 420mm
width (whole): 296mm
width (whole): 296mm
Exhibition Label
The Claudia Jones Organisation
This organisation and supplementary school in Hackney offers educational support and other out-of-school activities to children attending mainstream schools. Like most supplementary schools, it was established and managed by community members, generally on a voluntary basis. Its name pays tribute to well-known Black American political activist Claudia Jones. Jones was a Trinidadborn journalist and activist. She was deported from America to the UK in 1955 because of her Black
nationalist and communist political activities. In London she was one of the founders of the Notting Hill Carnival in 1959.
People Power: Black Arts & Activism in Hackney 1960s-2000s
This organisation and supplementary school in Hackney offers educational support and other out-of-school activities to children attending mainstream schools. Like most supplementary schools, it was established and managed by community members, generally on a voluntary basis. Its name pays tribute to well-known Black American political activist Claudia Jones. Jones was a Trinidadborn journalist and activist. She was deported from America to the UK in 1955 because of her Black
nationalist and communist political activities. In London she was one of the founders of the Notting Hill Carnival in 1959.
People Power: Black Arts & Activism in Hackney 1960s-2000s
On display?
No
Inscription
The Claudia Jones Organisation (an Afro-Caribbean Women’s Organisation). Careers Day Conference. Life may not be an open book but it helps to get the right start. For Afro-Caribbean parents/ guardians/ school-children and school-leavers. Saturday 4th April, 1987. From 9.30am – 445pm. Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street, London, E.8. Buses: 30, 35, 48, 106, 236 & 253. For further information please contact: The Claudia Jones Organisation, 103 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16. Tel: 01-241 1646.