George Padmore Institute

These are the collections that the GPI has in its care:
Caribbean Artists Movement (1966-1972) - tapes, transcriptions, letters, interviews, photographs; Black Education Movement (from the late 1960s to the present) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, tapes, photographs; Black Supplementary School Movement (from the late 1960s to the present) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, tapes, photographs; Black Parents Movement, the Black Youth Movement, the Alliance of the BPM, BYM and Race Today Collective (1975 to the late 1980s) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, tapes, photographs; New Cross Massacre Action Committee (1981) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, tapes, photographs; International Book Fair of Black Radical and Third World Books (1982-1995) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, tapes, photographs, brochures;
Carnival Movement (1970s-1990s) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, tapes, photographs, costumes, designs; European Action for Racial Equality and Social Justice (early 1990s) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, tapes, photographs; New Beacon Books (1966 to present) Campaigns and Organisations Rare journals and newspapers Caribbean, African and African-American materials - relating to the interconnections between different communities of the black diaspora; The Macdonald Inquiry into Racism and Racial Violence in Manchester Schools (The Burnage Inquiry) (1987) - the complete body of evidence submitted to the Inquiry.

We also have in our possession, or will have in the future when the Institute is ready to manage them, the individual archives of a number of our Trustees including those of John La Rose, our Chairman, Gus John, our Treasurer and Ian Macdonald QC. Some of these date back to the 1940s and 1950s.

Collection details

Law and Order, Social History, World Cultures