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Martin Luther King, Jr
Martin Luther King (1929-1968) was the dominant force in the civil rights movement in the decade before his death. With his genius for rhetoric and his passionate advocacy of non-violent protest, King, like Gandhi, is a modern icon of the possibilities of political activism. He was at the centre of many of the key events in the struggle for equal rights for non-whites in America: he organised the boycott of the (segregated) buses of Montgomery, Alabama; was arrested for his role in mass protest in Birmingham; and was a keynote speaker, delivering his famous 'I have a dream' speech, at the historic March on Washington. He was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1963 and a few months later became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. From the mid-1960s until his assassination in 1968, King widened his political concerns to protest against the Vietnam war and the evils of poverty. His birthday is now a national holiday in the United States.
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an historical context the development of a small black presence in sixteenth-century Britain into the disadvantaged black working class of the 1980s. The book deals with the colonial labour institutions (slavery, indentureship and trade unionism) and the ideology underlying them and also considers the previously neglected role of the nineteenth-century Black radicals in British working-class struggles. Finally, the book examines the emergence of a Black radical ideology that has underpinned the twentieth-century struggles against unemployment, racial attacks and workplace grievances, among them employer and trade union racism.
Mary Seacole
Biography of Mary Seacole, a pioneering nineteenth-century British-Jamaican nurse. Mary Seacole’s remarkable life began in Jamaica, where she was born a free person, the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Ron Ramdin—who, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to the United Kingdom—tells the remarkable story of this woman, celebrated today as a pioneering nurse. Refused permission to serve as an army nurse, Seacole took the remarkable step of funding her own journey to the Crimean battlefront, and there, in the face of sometimes harsh opposition, she established a hotel for wounded British soldiers. Unlike Florence Nightingale—whose exploits saw her venerated as the “lady with the lamp” for generations afterward—Seacole cared for soldiers perilously close to the fighting. As Ramdin shows in this biography, Seacole’s time in Crimea, for which she is best known, was only the pinnacle of a life of adventure and travel.
Reimaging Britain
A practical guide to the growing influence of women on parliamentary legislation across the Commonwealth, and includes a study of how women's rights are promoted.
Isabella's Legacy
In 1492 what had only months before seemed an unlikely event actually took place in Seville. Through the cobbled streets, Christopher Columbus on his triumphant return after his first voyage to the 'Indies', paraded seven exotic-looking Indians who were accompanied by equally strange-looking green and yellow parrots. Imagine the confusion in the minds of these Indians as they walked through the city and the curiosity this spectacle had aroused among the local population for at this time, Europeans knew little about the people of Africa and Asia about whom they were largely informed by the travel literature of the 15th century. We should remember however that these 'Indians' were not from Ind...
Paul Robeson
The first comprehensive biography of one of the best-loved singers of the last 100 years. In Ron Ramdin’s absorbing work, Robeson springs to life again as a man of charisma and stature, and as an indomitable spirit in his battle against The House Un-American Activities Committee.
Arising from Bondage
This Book Is An Attempt To Fill A Major Gap In Caribbean Historiography: The First Comprehensive Narrative Which Puts Into Historical Perspective The Struggles Of The Indo-Caribbean People, A Study Based Not Only On Official Reports And Papers, But Also On Unpublished Material From Disparate British, Indian And Caribean Sources. It Is An Epic Story Of The Extraordinary Perseverance And Courage Of An Enterprising People, Whose Contribution To Caribean Societies Has Been (And Is) Enormously Important, Even Though It Has Been Little Understood And Much Undervalued. Like New.
The Other Middle Passage
A facsimile edition of the Captain's journal of,the Salsette, a ship carrying indentured Indian,Labourers to the West Indies, recently discovered,by the author, a historian and writer working at,present in the British Museum. A detailed,introductory analysis by Ramdin puts in context,the significance of this document, which portrays,in vivid detail this little known mass migration.
