People

Question 1

Claudia Jones

Answer 1

• 1958: founded of the first Black British newspaper (West Indian Gazette)
• 1962: campaigned against the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Bill
  -> inspired others to fight for equal rights leading to the passing of the Race Relations Act in 1976
• established the NottingHill Carnival in 1959

Question 2

Gandhi

Answer 2

Encouraged by the Amritsar Massacre of 1919
- 1930 Salt March -> invited him to London to start negotiations on the Government of India Act
- 1942 Quit India Campaign

• in 1947 India and Pakistan gained independence as a result

Question 3

Jomo Kenyatta

Answer 3

• helped to organise the Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945
• 1947: was elected as leader of the Kenya African Union
• 1963: became Kenya’s first PM and the became President
  -> had numerous places named after her like Kenyatta Airport

Question 4

Kwame Nkrumah

Answer 4

• organised the Pan-African Congress
• 1947: Nkrumah was invited to work for the United Gold Coast Convention Party
• 1949: formed his own Convention People’s Party
• him being re-elected as PM in 1956 Britain saw it as a sign to leave

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