File consists of correspondence, reports and working committee / pre-conference papers concerning organisational arrangements for the Black Citizen’s Conference. The Conference was held in the European Parliament and chaired by Bernie Grant and representatives of the Socialist Group. This forum largely arose out of a need for Black and Migrant communities in the EEC to share views on common problems that they were likely to face due to the concerns presented by the 1992 Single Market Economy process. A central aim of the conference was to assist the Socialist Group in its policy formulation towards 1992 with respect to Community legislation. The main themes of the conference included: Black and Migrant women and 1992; free movement; political participation and rights; and Black perspectives on the South eg Gulf War. Includes draft program and ‘Draft proposal for a Euroconference of Black and Migrant organisations in the European community’. Also contains important letters of support addressed to Bernie Grant re initiating the conference; correspondence from Oona King re Socialist Group Black Conference meeting; and administrative applications for a Stagiere to assist in the organisation of the conference.
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BG/SC/3/2
BG/PBC/4/7
Note that this file contains language that is by its nature offensive to Black and other minority ethnic groups. Comprises correspondence re ‘failure to select a Black candidate for Vauxhall by-election’. Includes ‘racist / hate’ mail.
BG/ARM/3/1/3
File includes musicians meeting attendance list. Also enclosed is a b/w autographed photograph of the Posse. Note that in July 1995, the African Reparations Movement (ARM) were in the process of developing an Artists and Musicians section of the ARM. Original file cover was annotated as ‘Arts Section (File No.2)’.
BG/P/18/1/65
Documents relating to issues such as the campaign to lift the ban on Minister Louis Farrakhan’s visit to the United Kingdom; ‘Black Unity’ meeting at Broadwater Farm; Stephen Lawrence Inquiry; racism; ‘Million Man March’.
BG/P/18/1/13
File consists of correspondence and minutes relating to the organising of a conference entitled ‘Racism in the Acting Profession’. Also includes letter from one constituent. The name ‘Stafford’ was annotated on original folder.
BG/P/18/1/15
File comprises two items of correspondence from Lord David Pitt [first Black peer and Member of the Parliamentary Black Caucus] to Bernie Grant concerning a constituent and re the Afro-Caribbean Medical Society.
BG/P/16/2
Note that this file contains language that is by its nature offensive to black and other minority ethnic groups. Comprises correspondence, clippings, press releases and reports concerning issues such as the following: Catholic Association for Racial Justice; Bangladeshi children, education and equality; conference papers re ‘Black People, Human Rights and the Media’, dated 19 Nov 1988; Bernie Grant and Labour Party, High Wycombe; Mr Hanoomansingh; Dewsbury School dispute; race hate in schools; Burnage Inquiry; MacDonald Inquiry; racism and education; George Foulkes MP; racist, hate mail and leaflets; handwritten notes re ‘Black people and British Politics’; Report of Inquiry by the West Indian Community in Harlow re incident 3 Apr 1987 in a section of Milwards; police and black peoples and Ethnic minorities; racial violence; community relations.
BG/P/11/4/5
Note that this file contains language that is by its nature offensive to Black and other minority ethnic groups. Includes various papers, hate mail item, and eg Tottenham conservative party election flyers promoting candidate Andrew Charalambous.
BG/P/4/5/1
Note that this file contains language that is by its nature offensive to black and other minority ethnic groups. File includes press clippings relating to policing, the Ethnic Minorities Joint Consultative Committee (EMJCC), and disturbances at Broadwater Farm, Brixton and Peckham. Also includes a facsimile copy of hate mail from the Ku-Klux Klan (KKK) to a resident of the Broadwater Farm Estate.