Claudia Jones(21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964)was an important figure in the British racial justice movement after being exiled from the US in 1955 because of her involvement in the Communist Party.Claudia Jones: A Life in Exileby Marika Sherwood (Lawrence Wishart, 2021) is the first book to chartthe work of this visionary and pioneer, focusing on her time in Britain,where she fought against racial discrimination and set up the West Indian Gazette and an indoor carnival for Caribbean culture.
To mark the beginning of Black History Month we are honouring the histories of radical Black feminist activism with an excerpt fromClaudia Jones: A life in Exile. Sherwood’s biography gives fascinating insight into Jones’ role in different Black activist organisations amid the racist political climate and anti-Black violence of the late 1950s, which led to the Notting Hill riots in 1958:
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