Black Parents Movement

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): BPM

Title: Black Parents Movement

Date(s): 1975 - 1982

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 12 archive boxes; c.120 files

CONTEXT AREA

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Administrative/Biographical history: The formation of the Black Parents Movement and the Black Youth Movement was triggered by the unjustifiable arrest of a black school student by local police in Haringey, London, in April 1975. The Movement went on to mount a number of education campaigns covering issues of racism and anti-racism in schools and campaigns to stop racial discrimination and harassment of black youth in the wider community between 1975 and 1982.

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Material in the GPI archive collections has arisen out of the independent cultural, educational and political activities of GPI trustees and the work of associated political organisations and campaign groups involved in social movements and black activism in Britain and in other parts of Europe since the early 1960s.

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: The archive of the Black Parents Movement includes:

• Files containing the minutes of the Steering Committee, 1977; General Membership Meeting, 1979; Management Committee, 1976; Co-ordinating Committee, c.1977; Monthly Meeting, 1976-1978.
• BPM organisational and campaign literature, 1970s.
• News cuttings and education reports featuring information about the UK education system.
• BPM correspondence files
• Files on relations between the BPM and other organisations (e.g. Trades Unions, Caribbean Educationists and Community Workers Association, black parents' organisations in other parts of the United Kingdom), 1970s-1980s.
• Files on various education campaigns including the Cliff McDaniel Case, 1975, the Anti-banding campaign in Haringey and the Burning Spear Seven, 1979.

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CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

Conditions governing access: Currently there is no public access to the collections, but reference access (by appointment) will be possible from 2003 onwards. In the interim all research enquiries should be sent to the George Padmore Institute by post, fax or email c/o: George Padmore Institute, 76 Stroud Green Road, London N4 3EN, United Kingdom. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7272 8915. Fax: +44 (0)20 7281 4662. Email: info@georgepadmoreinstitute.org.

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Language/scripts of material: English

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids: Printed list

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 28 November 2001

Interest: Black

Specific group: African and African-Caribbean peoples

Subjects

Protest movements

Schools

Racial discrimination

Interethnic relations

Ethnic groups

Education

Communities

Personal/Corporate names

Black Parents Movement

Places

Haringey, London, United Kingdom