Dalston Black History Walk

The walk marks 70 years since the SS Windrush arrived from the Caribbean. This tour takes you from the 1950s to the present day.

The tour will cover:

• Black music history soul, reggae, rave and acid: the legendary 4 Aces
• Hackney’s black activism and its pioneering role in housing equality
• Sus and Operation Jackpot, the Freeway Rick Ross  Los Angeles connection
• Black British Civil Rights: Hackney Black Peoples 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

Tickets cost £10.00 book them here.