
Claudia Jones
1915–1964
- Nationality
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Occupation
- journalist
Claudia Vera Jones (née Cumberbatch; 21 February 1915 â 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist.
Incarceration history
Facilities
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- Fpc AldersonDates unknown
Biography
Claudia Vera Jones (née Cumberbatch; 21 February 1915 â 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". Due to the political persecution of Communists in the US, she was deported in 1955 and subsequently lived in the United Kingdom. Upon arriving in the UK, she immediately joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and would remain a member for the rest of her life. In 1958, she founded Britain's first major Black newspaper, the West Indian Gazette (1958-1965), and from 1959 she organised a series of indoor Caribbean carnivals that have been cited as an influence on what became the Notting Hill Carnival, the second-largest annual carnival in the world.
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