Claudia Jones

Standard Name: Jones, Claudia
Used Form: Claudia Vera Cumberbatch

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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 .
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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...

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8 November 1950: Claudia Jones, a radical Black journalist,...

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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.

December 1955: Black activist Claudia Jones, threatened...

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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.

March 1958: Trinidadian-born activist Claudia Jones launched,...

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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.

August 1959: The first Notting Hill Carnival was held,...

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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.

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