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The Bonfire Night Uprising in Chapeltown,  Leeds, on 5.11.1975

The Bonfire Night Uprising in Chapeltown, Leeds, on 5.11.1975

By Max Farrar on February 2, 2025

It’s now 50 years since 11 black youths and me were arrested during or after the first uprising by black British youth. Rage against the police erupted in Chapeltown, Leeds, in the north of England, on Bonfire Night in 1975. Youths attacked an unmarked police car as it drove through the crowd on Spencer Place […]

Posted in blog, public sociology, sociology, writing | Tagged Black Power, Bonfire Night Trial, Chapeltown, Darcus Howe, Fasimbas, John La Rose, Leeds, Leeds United Caribbean Association, Leeds West Indian Afro Brotherhood, Leila Hassan, Race Today, Rastafari | Leave a response

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