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Claudia Jones blue plaque
Claudia Jones · Founder of Britain’s First African Caribbean Carnival
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“Claudia Jones 1915-1964 Mother of Caribbean Carnival in Britain. Organised an annual carnival from January 1959 as a community response to the 1958 August Bank Holiday Notting Hill riots”
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1915-64
Life dates
corner of Tavistock Rd and Portobello Rd
W11
Erected 2011
Nubian Jak Community Trust
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