Claudia jones

Journalist and activist Claudia Jones was born in Trinidad and Tobago, which was still a colony of the British Empire, in 1915. At age eight, she migrated with her family to Harlem in New York City. Her mother died when she was 13. Jones won the Theodore Roosevelt Award for Good Citizenship during her junior […] The post Claudia Jones, Trinidad and Tobago – Caribbean Woman of Influence appeared first on Jamaicans.com.

Knowledge Sessions: Who Was Claudia Jones?

Campaign leaflet for the release of Claudia Jones, black freedom fighter, during her incarceration in the Jimcrow federal women’s prison at Alderson, West Virginia. She was sentenced under the Smith Act on 11 January 1955 to serve a year and a day, resulting in further damage to her health, a factor that contributed to her […]

Claudia Jones founded the first major black post- war newspaper -The West Indian Gazette; and also helped launch the Notting Hill Carnival.

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Claudia Jones

Claudia Jones and W.E.B. Du Bois

Claudia Jones Quotes... Claudia Jones or Claudia Vera Cumberbatch was born in 1915 in Trinidad. She was one of the most influential black women