So excited to see all of the #NottingHillCarnival costumes today! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦚" title="Peacock" aria-label="Emoji: Peacock">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💫" title="Symbol für Benommenheit" aria-label="Emoji: Symbol für Benommenheit">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥁" title="Drum" aria-label="Emoji: Drum">

Here’s a thread about how a London race riot + the tenacity of Black immigrants in the UK led to the creation of the #NottingHillCarnival https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏽" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (mittlerer Hautton)">

Aug 29th 1958 the Morrisons got into a huge argument at the Latimer Rd Tube Station. They were a mixed couple, Majbritt was Swedish + Raymond was Jamaican

This public argument fueled attacks on Black citizens by white nationalists called the Teddy Boys: The Notting Hill Riots

Context: These Teddy Boys had been super bothered by the increase in Caribbean immigrants in the North Kensington area throughout the mid-50s. They were not happy to see an interracial couple

A group of Teddy Boys approached Majbritt + called her a “black man’s trollop”

Following the Teddy Boys aggression towards Mrs. Morrison Notting Hill erupted in violence. 100s of young white men went out to throw homemade firebombs at Black residents’ homes.

The attacks on Black Notting Hill residents continued until September 5th 1958

The next yr a disgraced politician, Oswald Mosley, ran for a seat in Kensington Parliment by pandering to these racist white men

His platform: “Forced repatriation” of West Indians + a ban on interracial marriages. HE LOSThttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤘🏽" title="Heavy-Metal-Handzeichen (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Heavy-Metal-Handzeichen (mittlerer Hautton)">+ the Black community’s response was....CARNIVAL

To show these wypipo how much cultural wealth Caribbean citizens had to offer they formed the London Caribbean Carnival https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙌🏽" title="Raising hands (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Raising hands (mittlerer Hautton)">

It was at St Pancras Town Hall in January 1959. It was on the BBC, + was organized by Claudia Jones,. She is the Mother of Caribbean Carnival in Britain https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏽" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (mittlerer Hautton)">

Claudia Jones is a very very bad bih!

In 1958 she also founded the UK’s first weekly Black newspaper, the West Indian Gazette, later the West Indian Gazette + Afro-Asian Caribbean News - We Stan a Black Publisher https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙌🏽" title="Raising hands (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Raising hands (mittlerer Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤘🏽" title="Heavy-Metal-Handzeichen (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Heavy-Metal-Handzeichen (mittlerer Hautton)">

The Notting Hill Carnival is without a doubt in existence because of the work Claudia did to pave ways!

It began as a traditional fete named Notting Hill Fayre in 1966. It was organized by Rhaune Laslett, an activist + co-Founders of the London Free School https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏽" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (mittlerer Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙌🏽" title="Raising hands (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Raising hands (mittlerer Hautton)">

Happy #NottingHillCarnival babes!

Beautiful, rich, Black history being celebrated + displayed today! We love to see it https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖤" title="Schwarzes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Schwarzes Herz">