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Claudia Jones

1915 – 1964

Trinidad; United States; United Kingdom

Trinidad-born journalist and Communist activist, Jones was deported from the US in 1955, founded the West Indian Gazette in London in 1958, and helped launch the Caribbean carnival that preceded Notting Hill Carnival.

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Crowds at Notting Hill Carnival on Ladbroke Grove, London, 2010
Credit: David Hawgood, via Geograph Britain and Ireland. License: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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  1. English Heritage, "JONES, Claudia (1915–1964)" blue plaque (Primary source)
  2. Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles (Cambridge University Press), "Claudia Jones" (Scholarly)
  3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Claudia Jones" (Reference)

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