Claudia Jones (In History) - 1915 - 1964

She was born in Belmont, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1915. At the age of eight her family moved to Harlem, New York with her three sisters. She became involved in communism and black politics and by 1948 was elected onto the National Committee of the Communist Party of the USA. By 1948 she had become the editor of Negro Affairs for the party's paper the Daily Worker and had evolved into an accomplished speaker on human and civil rights. In 1955 she was deported from the US and given asylum in England. She founded and edited The West Indian Gazette. Claudia Jones founded the Notting Hill carnival, which she helped launch in 1959 as an annual showcase for Caribbean talent. Throughout her life she maintained an unwavering solidarity and a vision of the betterment of working-class people all over the world. What started out as a crusade for black working-class people became a crusade for all working-class people.

Sites referencing Claudia Jones:
http://www.preciousonline.co.uk/arts/june02/Claudia.htm
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/archivedsites/claudia_jones_exile.htm
http://www.blackhistorypages.net/pages/cjones.php
http://www.100greatblackbritons.com/bios/claudia_jones.html
http://www.pww.org/article/view/4854/1/204/
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