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What's available
Suggested reading - Library members can find and reserve the following resources in our library catalogue.
- 'Mangoes to Moss Side: Caribbean Migration to Manchester in the 1950s and 1960s' in Manchester Region History Review v.16 2002-3– Jo Stanley’s article gives a broad overview. Q942.73Man
- 'Rude Awakening: African / Caribbean settlers in Manchester: an account' (Roots Oral History Project, 1992). A Race Relations Resource Centre item.
- 'Bitter Sweet Journey' - autobiography of Whit Stennett, Lord Mayor of Trafford in 2003-04, showing the experiences of an immigrant from Jamaica who arrived here in 1959. It deals with his early life in Jamaica, his work in Manchester for the GPO, and his cricketing experiences in England, amongst other topics. 352.160942 STE(305)
- 'Employment of Negroes in Manchester' by Janet Reid (Sociological Review, New Series, vol. 4, Dec 1956 p.199). This summarises a longer unpublished report on the employment of black people in the city between October 1954 and 1955. q331.639604REI(269)
- 'Made in Manchester vol.1': Black History Matters articles on notable Manchester people. 942.730089BLA(349)
- 'Len Johnson and the colour bar: the life and times of Len Johnson' by Ron Howard. 796.83092How(139)
- 'Len Johnson; the boxer with 93 wins who could never become British Champion' by Christian Brooks and others. q796.83JOH(432)
- 'Never Counted Out!': the story of Britain’s Black boxing hero and Communist by Michael Herbert. 796.83Jo(454)
- 'Forever and Ever Amen' Joe Pemberton’s novel telling the story of a young boy growing up in Moss Side at the end of the 1960's but with references back to St Kitts where his family had come from. 942.7331Pe(421)
- 'England our England: Stories of the Black and Asian Migrant Pioneers' by Gurnek Bains and others - includes interview with Elouise Edwards, Manchester activist. Q305.800941Bai(963)
- 'Against the odds: Black and minority ethnic clinicians and Manchester, 1948 to 2009'. 362.109427JON(130)
You may also be interested in our African and Early Black Presence pages.
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How to access
Library members can find and reserve the resources mentioned by following the links to our library catalogue.
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Photographs
See photos and more of our albums on Flickr.
Images relating to the black community can also be seen in our Local Image Collection which also has some images of Len Johnson.
Photographs relating to Louise Da Cocodia, nurse and anti-racism in our Documentary Photographic Archive: DPA/1828 (not digitised but thumbprints an be viewed in the Search Room, Ground Floor, Central Library; digital copies can be ordered).