Tag Archives: closed until 2082

BG/BTU/1/2

File includes records documenting the establishment, organisational structure and management of the Black Trade Unionists Solidarity Movement (BTUSM). Consists of constitutions (including first draft); clippings; minutes of first founding meeting; minutes of the first meeting of the New Jewel Movement (NJM)/BTUSM Trade Union Working Group; declaration of intent and policy aims and objectives; list of union members and contact details; statement by the BTUSM on Grenada; membership forms and documents re membership structure and procedures. Relates to topics such as political and civil rights; employment eg recruitment practices; ethnic discrimination; trade unions; Black representation; Black Caucus.

BG/P/4/4/6

Predominantly includes copies of research / briefing material distributed by the Haringey Council Race Relations and Ethnic Adviser as well as associated council correspondence, memorandums and reports. Includes papers relating to topics such as United States civil disorder, education, equal opportunity, British Nationality Bill, immigration, race relations, and racism eg racism awareness training. Also includes correspondence from Bernie Grant concerning his dismissal as Chair of the Ethnic Minorities Joint Consultative Committee (EMJCC), dated 19 May 1980.

BG/P/4/4/7

File comprises research and reference material distributed by the Haringey Council Race Relations and Ethnic Adviser; press clippings; copies of council correspondence reports and minutes, relating to issues such as: the West Indian Leadership Council; minutes of the Racism Awareness Programme Unit; correspondence between the Greater London Association of Trade Councils Anti-Racist-Anti-Fascist Committee (GLATC) and the East London Workers Against Racism (ELWAR); Bangladesh Welfare Association; Equal Opportunity and Minority Ethnic people; Brixton riots; CARIB Housing Association; Ethnic Elderly; West London Hospital Branch dispute; Hackney Ethnic Minority Business Project; Task Force – ‘Working with Pensioners’; Haringey Task Force (Note that Bernie Grant was a member of the Social Services Committee). Relates to issues such as housing, crime, equal opportunity, Asian peoples, Black peoples, Ethnic Minorities.

BG/P/4/4/4

File consists of copies of council correspondence, minutes, reports and research material re subjects such as racism; sexism; Further Education Sub-Committee; Ethnic Minorities and the Police; education; employment and black youths; Task Force ‘Working with Pensioners’; Tottenham Green detached youth project (eg Saphire Sounds Community Project, single homeless youth); trade unions and black workers; anti-racism groups; Ethnic Minorities Joint Consultative Committee (EMJCC); National Union of Public Employees (NUPE); youth issues eg EMJCC comments and recommendations by Haringey Youth and Community Service re Commission for Racial Equality report entitled ‘Youth in Multi Racial Society’; Tottenham Labour Party; racial harassment and housing estates. Includes originals and copies of council case correspondence re issues of concern in the borough of Haringey such as education, employment and housing.