Mainly outgoing correspondence issued to constituents and members of the public by Bernie Grant in response to enquiries re resettlement. See possible related items within MP constituency files series and in the correspondence (for and against reparations) created as part of the African Reparations Movement records.
Tag Archives: closed until 2100
BG/P/18/1/102
File consists of documentation such as correspondence with Metropolitan Police re racial incidents such as racially motivated crime; speech delivered by Bernie Grant; and stop and search figures for Jan – Sep 1994 (with ethnic breakdown of figures). File content dates back until Jan 1994.
BG/P/18/1/91
Documentation relating to issues such as prostitution, ‘kerb crawling’, drug crimes, and policing in Tottenham.
BG/P/18/1/43
Consists of correspondence and press coverage re Bernie Grant’s campaign efforts to lift the British exclusion ban on Minister Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam. Includes correspondence between Bernie Grant and various correspondents re opinions concerning the immigration ban on Minister Farrakhan. Correspondents include: the Home Office (Jack Straw); members of the public (letters for and against the ban imposed on Farrakhan); Black organisations (eg Nation of Islam, Society of Black Lawyers). Also relates to issues such as Stephen Lawrence, racism, immigration.
BG/P/18/1/17
File contains correspondence between Bernie Grant [as a patron of the Black Cultural Archives] and executive members of the Black Cultural Archives. Includes correspondence, mission statements and proposals dealing with the establishment of the Black Cultural Archives and the National Museum and Archives for Black History and Culture. Relates to issues such as the Archival Centre for Black British history; African Reparations Movement (ARM); African Peoples Historical Monument Foundation; Archives and Museum of Black Heritage (AMBH). Also includes a report concerning Bernie Grant’s [as Chair of the ARM] proposal to establish an Institute for the Study of Slavery, Colonialism, and the African Diaspora (ISSCAD) in partnership with Middlesex University and Haringey Council; Lottery funding bid preparatory documents; Inventory of Black history archival material (mainly ephemera) on loan to the Black Cultural Archives, as purchased by Bernie Grant at auction.
BG/P/2/3/13
Black folder marked ‘Strictly Private and Confidential’. Compiled by Bindman and Partners Solicitors (Reference 38273 – TM 0171 833 4433).
BG/P/2/3/1
File includes court transcripts, press clipping, legal correspondence and a report outlining the history of Winston Silcott’s case [eg synopsis, Winston’s story, conviction record at time of arrest, copy of police statement on which he was convicted, article by Geoffrey Bindman “How justice failed Winston Silcott”, Guardian letters summarizing the parallels with the Guildford Four case].