Following the Notting Hill riots of 1958, where Afro-Caribbean people were attacked by racists in West London, Claudia said that people should not leave or fight back, but show that they were willing to share their culture with others.
She was living at 6 Meadow Road at the time of the first carnival, held on 30 January 1959. She is shown on the electoral roll for 1958-60.
For a time, while living here, Claudia Jones had a clerical job at the nearby Stockwell Bus Garage.
Sources:
* Electoral rolls, held in Lambeth Council Archives.
* Claudia Jones: a life in exile, by Marika Sherwood (published by Lawrence & Wishart, 1999).
* I think of my mother: notes on the life and times of Claudia Jones, by Buzz Johnson (published by Karia Press, 1985).
5 Sep 2006