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Remembering Claudia Jones who died on 24 December 1964. Journalist and activist. Regarded as the "mother of Nottinghill Carnival". Claudia founded Britain& #39;s first major Black newspaper, West Indian Gazette, in 1958. A legend. 
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In her last published essay, "The Caribbean Community in Britain" (1964), Jones said of the West Indian Gazette: "The newspaper has served as a catalyst, quickening the awareness, socially and politically, of West Indians, Afro-Asians and their friends".
Many also regard Rhaune Laslett, a Russian/Native American social worker, as the mother of Notting Hill Carnival. Its true founder. Rhaune was the main organiser of the week-long Notting Hill Fayre (1966) which evolved into carnival as we know it. https://archive.voice-online.co.uk/article/rhaune-laslett-true-founder-notting-hill-carnival">https://archive.voice-online.co.uk/article/r...
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