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Brixton Uprisings

 Fonds
Identifier: UPRISINGS

Scope and Contents

This collection gathers texts, photographs, newspaper articles, witness accounts, and ephemera relating to the Brixton uprisings in 1981 and related uprisings in Birmingham, Croxteth and Southall. The collection comprises community newsletters, grass roots newspapers, police reports, liberation and defence campaign literature, press cuttings and extracts from right wing inclined national tabloids and leftist pamphlets.

Dates

  • Creation: 1981

Extent

7 folders and 3 oversized folders

Language of Materials

Undetermined

Custodial History

Collection has been gathered together by BCA archivists during cataloguing in January 2009 to bring together the number of small deposits on this subject.

Title
Black Cultural Archives: Brixton Uprisings
Author
Black Cultural Archives
Date
23/02/2022
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Archives Collection Repository

Contact:
Black Cultural Archives
1 Windrush Square
London