Word: brixton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brixton, a South London district of small row houses where 70,000 West Indians live, is rapidly deteriorating into the capital's first true ghetto, a backwater of black alienation and crime. Cecil, 18, a slender youth with a black leather cap, leans against the doorway of the Brixton unemployment office on Coldharbour Lane and says, "I wouldn't work in this country. I'd rather be a crook." A Jamaican who left the island when he was three, Cecil has not held a job since he graduated from school last year. Unable to find anything paying...
...from Brixton is the East End's Brick Lane, where between 7,000 and 25,000 Bengalis - no one knows the exact number - work in garment industry sweatshops. A timorous, often illiterate people, for the past two years they have been subjected to vicious beatings and murders by white gangs. Listening to the sound of prayer coming from the local mosque, Gulam Mustafa, a leather goods manufacturer and local Bengali leader, says he has appealed repeatedly to the Home Office to help halt the attacks. The Bengalis' cause was taken up last year by the Anti-Nazi League...
...Prices had ended their long fast after what appeared to be an eleventh-hour decision by Westminster to avert the risk of violent reprisals by the sisters' Irish Republican Army supporters. As soon as their health permits, the pair may be transferred from London's maximum-security Brixton Prison to jail in Northern Ireland...
Then came the Tower, Brixton Prison and the Old Bailey. Nothing so became Roger Casement as his stride to the scaffold. No reputable barrister would handle his case: the diaries were circulating; the Allies were suffering horrendous losses in France. It was not even seriously questioned whether the English had the right to try an Irish conspirator save as a prisoner...
...this undirected anger that has most observers of black Britain worried. "I am quite concerned that the violence that is sure to come will do harm to blacks because it will be undirected," says Gilbert Brown, a Brixton community worker. For the most part there are no national black leaders, and the young take as their heroes Afro-American leaders like Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The black community center in Manchester proudly bears the title "The George Jackson Center...