George Padmore Institute

Archive collections currently accessible to the public:
Caribbean Artists Movement (1966-1972) - newsletters, correspondence, interviews, transcripts of interviews, forums and symposia, photographs, audio material; Black Education Movement (late 1960s to the present) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, audio material, photographs; Black Supplementary School Movement (late 1960s to the present) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, audio material, 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, audio material, photographs; New Cross Massacre Action Committee (1981-1985) - minutes, leaflets, campaign material, posters, photographs; International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books (1982-1995) - minutes, publicity material, brochures, posters, transcripts, audio material, photographs; Ephemeral Material Collected by John La Rose (1952-1996) - social, political and cultural organisations, campaigns, national and international newsletters, journals and publications; European Action for Racial Equality and Social Justice (early 1990s)- minutes, leaflets, campaign materials, posters, photographs; Rare journals and newspapers Caribbean, African and African-American - relating to the interconnections between different communities of the black diaspora.
Not yet available: 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 such as our late founding Chair, John La Rose, Gus John, our Treasurer and Ian Macdonald QC.

Collection details

World Cultures, Social History, Law and Order