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´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Black heritage sources

The following is a source list of those materials held in the ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ and Local Studies collections relating to a study of ´ºÓêÖ±²¥’s place in British Black heritage. The ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ and Local Studies collections are designated repositories of printed resources pertaining to the cultural and historic development of the city.

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The African Caribbean ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥. (1995).
LF 21.85.

Articles and journals

´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Historian, Quaker Lloyds, Bingley and Slavery,
Bill Ainsworth. Issue 28, Spring 2006.
50.6 ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection and LBF 50.6.

´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Historian. West Indies in the Archives,
Fiona Tait. Issue 15, pages 17 to 20.
50.6 ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection and LBF 50.6.

´ºÓêÖ±²¥ ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Relations Committee annual reports,
1970/71 to 1986/87. LBF 21.85.

Bulletin of the ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Relations Council,
Nos. 2 to 7, 1978 to 1979. LB 21.85.

Picture Post. Are We Building Up to a British Colour Conflict?
22 January 1955. LP 21.85.

Newspaper cuttings

´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Ethnic ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ newscuttings, 1954 to August 2005.
Reclassified as Black Communities from August 2005 onwards.

Texts

Ashu, Frederick Ebot. New African Leaders: Contribution of Africans in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ from 1950 - traditional stories of Africans in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥, UK. (2012).
´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection 21.85 and LF 21.85.

´ºÓêÖ±²¥ City Council. Revd. Peter Thomas Stanford – The Life of ´ºÓêÖ±²¥’s First Black Minister. (2011).
LP 78.1 STA.

´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Museum and Art Gallery. Breaking the Chains – The Equiano Project. (2007).
LP 50.102.

Bishton, Derek and Reardon, John. Home Front. (1984).
´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection 21.85 and L 21.85.

British Soviet Society. The British Soviet Society (B’ham Branch) Presents Paul Robeson at the ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Town Hall, 21 May 1949.
LP 22.41

Brown, John. Policing by Multi-Racial Consent, the Handsworth experience. (1982).
L 93.1.

Callaghan, David. Day in the Life: a Black Heritage Trail of the West Midlands. (2011).
´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection 21.85 and LP 21.85.

Courtman, Sandra. A Journey Through the Imperial Gaze: ´ºÓêÖ±²¥’s Photographic Collections and its Caribbean
Nexus. (2004).
LF 21.85.

Edmead, Peter L. The Divisive Decade. (1999).
´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection 21.85 and LF 21.85.

Flett, Hazel. Black Council Tenants in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥. Working Papers on Ethnic Relations. No. 12, 1979.
LF 21.85.

Griffiths, Peter. A Question of Colour. (1966). L 21.85.
Chapter on the 1964 election in Smethwick.

Grosvenor, McLean and Roberts. Making Connections: ´ºÓêÖ±²¥’s Black International History. (2002).
´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection 21.85 and L 21.85

Grosvenor, Ian and Chapman, Rob. West Africa, West Indies, West Midlands. Book to accompany exhibition.(1982).
´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection 21.85 and LF 21.85.

Gunter, Henry. A Man’s a Man – the Colour Bar in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ and an Answer. (1954).
L 21.85.

Hall, Catherine. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830 to 1861. (2002). L 21.851.
Section on ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ – Mapping the Midland Metropolis.

Hall, Clive (ed.), Three Continents, One History: ´ºÓêÖ±²¥, the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Caribbean. (c 2008).
´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Collection 21.851 and L 21.851.

Jones, Simon. Black Culture, White Youth - Reggae Tradition From JA to UK. (1988). L 21.85
Chapter on the ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ context.

Madden, Ann. From Paradise to Motherland. A Reminiscence pack to assist ´ºÓêÖ±²¥’s post-war Caribbean immigrants in recalling their pasts. (1993).
LF 21.85.

Price, Doreen and Thiara, Ravi. The Land of Money? Personal accounts by post-war Black migrants to ´ºÓêÖ±²¥.(1992).
LP 21.85 PRI

Sanders, John. Immigration … The Incredible Folly. (1965).
L 21.85.

Scawdi. History Detectives: Black People in the West Midlands, 1650 – 1918.
(2010). LP 21.85.

Searle, Kevin. Guess Who Came to Dinner ..... the Stories of Black Mixed Race Families in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ during the 1950s and 1960s. (200?).
LP 21.85.

Sherwood, Marika. Malcolm X Visits Abroad. References to the 1965 visit to Smethwick. (2011).
L 21.85.

Weaver, Gordon. Conan Doyle and the Parson’s Son: the George Edalji Case. (2006).
L 43 EDA.