Gone with the Wind?-Macmillan’s Speech for Change' - Learning Journey
Gone with the Wind?-Macmillan’s Speech for Change - A Perspective through Chronology
1912 ANC in South Africa is formed
1919 Riots & disturbances in Jamaica, British Honduras & Trinidad
1920-22 - Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi launches anti-British civil disobedience campaign in Colonial India
1922 Sugar price collapses
1925 - First legislative council elections take place in Ghana.
1948 Riots break out in Ghana after 3 WW2 veterans are killed
1948 South Africa adopts policy of Apartheid
1960 Rhodesia opposes London on colonial policy of majority Rule
1961 Nelson Mandela forms an armed branch of the ANC to fight apartheid
1962 Mandela is arrested and imprisoned imprisoned until 1989
1966-79 Second Chimurenga War in Zimbabwe
Suggested Biographies:
Jomo Kenyatta (1891-1978) Anti-Colonial activist and Kenya’s first Prime Minister and President
Mabel Dove-Danquah (1905-84) Author, Journalist and Political activist from the Gold Coast, Africa
Dr Harold Moody (1882-1947) Jamaican born physician anti-racist campaigner and founder of the League of Colored People
C.L.R.James (1901-89) Trinidadian author and political activist
Claudia Jones (1915-64) Journalist, Feminist and political activist
Suggested Places of Historical Significance:
Independence Square, Ghana
Ghost Cities of the Swahili Coast, Kenya
Red Fort, Delhi, India
Harold Moody Park, Nunhead UK
Suggested Historical Sources:
‘Wind of Change ‘speech (1960) Harold Macmillan
Blue Plaque for Jomo Kenyatta
Poem- ‘The Black Soldier’s Lament’ by Georg A Borden
Bust of Harold Moody at the National Portrait Gallery
C.L.R.James Library Dalston Hackney London
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Listen to Related Podcast Episodes:
A Call to Action - The Wind of Change Speech
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A New Wind of Change - adjusting the sails
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