Documents within file are in approximate date order. File maintained by Bernie Grant while Leader of Haringey Council. Contains Bernie Grant’s correspondence with the press, clippings and press releases. Relates to topics such as Grenada; education; lesbian and gay civil rights; Black Pressure Group on Education; racism; biographical information re Bernie Grant and Haringey communities.

Documents within file are in approximate date order. File maintained by Bernie Grant while Leader of Haringey Council. Contains Bernie Grant’s correspondence with the press, clippings and press releases. Relates to issues such as education, lesbian and gay civil rights, Black Pressure Group on Education, Broadwater Farm.

Correspondence files maintained as Leader of Haringey Council. Documents within file are in approximate date order. Mainly consists of correspondence between Bernie Grant and the Labour Party eg re Bernie Grant’s prospective candidacy and including estray Black Section and Labour Party branch minutes of meetings. See related Party Political Papers within the Bernie Grant collection. Includes press clipping from London Daily News re Bernie Grant’s historic election as Haringey Council Leader ie first Black Leader of a local authority in Europe.

File includes and deals with correspondence re the role of Irish Liaison Officers / Community Representatives in relation to the Race Equality Unit; correspondence between Bernie Grant and the Haringey Irish Consultative Forum; decisions reached at the Ethnic Minorities Joint Consultative Committee (EMJCC) meeting held 5 July 1988; EMJCC correspondence and agendas re EMJCC seminar arranged to examine whether the race quality structure was meeting the needs of the changing climate of race relations in the Borough of Haringey. Includes Bernie Grant’s letter of resignation [dated 27 May 1988] as a Councillor for Haringey and the responding expression of thanks and well-wishes from Executive Officer of the Council.