“Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights.
Claudia Jones
Standard Name: Jones, Claudia
Used Form: Claudia Vera Cumberbatch
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Winsome Pinnock | WP
's A Rock in Water, a play based on the life of Claudia Jones
, was given at the Royal Court Young People's Theatre
. |
| Textual Features | Winsome Pinnock | Claudia Jones was born as Claudia Vera Cumberbatch
in Trinidad in 1915; it was for political secrecy that she adopted the name she is best known by. She was deported from the USA for Communist... |
Timeline
8 November 1950: Claudia Jones, a radical Black journalist,...
National or international item
8 November 1950
Claudia Jones
, a radical Black journalist, one of seventeen foreign-born radicals imprisoned on Ellis Island, New York, under the Internal Security Act, protested their detention in a letter printed in the Daily Worker.
Atkinson, Clarissa. “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
23
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2006, pp. 10-13. 10-13
December 1955: Black activist Claudia Jones, threatened...
Building item
December 1955
Black activist Claudia Jones
, threatened with deportation from the USA to her native Trinidad for violating anti-Communist laws, arrived in London, where she spent her nine remaining years.
Weigand, Kate. “A Radical Activist, Rediscovered”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Jan.–Feb. 2009, pp. 13-14. 13-14
March 1958: Trinidadian-born activist Claudia Jones launched,...
Writing climate item
March 1958
Trinidadian-born activist Claudia Jones
launched, on a shoe-string, the West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News, which kept publishing in London until May 1965, only two issues after her death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
August 1959: The first Notting Hill Carnival was held,...
Writing climate item
August 1959
The first Notting Hill Carnival was held, with the intention of eclipsing the local memory of the riots in this area a year previously.
Travis, Alan. “After 44 years secret papers reveal truth about five nights of violence in Notting Hill”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, p. 3.
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