Black History CollectionInstitute of Race Relations
Over the 50 years of its existence, the Institute of Race Relations has gathered together a unique collection of posters, leaflets, flyers, newspaper cuttings, campaign materials and more than 160 journals from black community and grassroots groups in the anti-racist struggle. Catalogued and conserved with the aid of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Black History Collection spans the 1950s to the 1980s and covers topics such as black workers’ struggles for representation at work and in their unions, anti-deportation campaigns, policing and racial violence, the Black Power movement, the education, health and social welfare of black children, the 1958 Notting Hill riots, anti-fascism and uprisings.