Location : WCML
Start date : 19th October 2011
End date : 19th October 2011
At 6.30pm Marika Sherwood will give a talk, Malcolm X, visits abroad, to mark Black History Month. The talk is free, and there will be tea and coffee available beforehand.
Marika will discuss the visits of activist Malcolm X to Britain in 1964, including a meeting he addressed in Manchester which she has used interviews, newspaper and individuals' memories to recreate.
Marika will also be speaking at the University of Manchester courtesy of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust on Thursday 20 October at 6.30pm; places bookable via rrarchive@manchester.ac.uk or 0161 275 2920.
Hungarian-born Marika Sherwood has lived in many parts of the world. In England she taught in schools before undertaking research on aspects of the history of Black peoples in Britain, more particularly the political activists of the past hundred years or so.
In 1991 with colleagues she founded the Black and Asian Studies Association, which campaigns on various issues with a focus on education; she edited the BASA Newsletter until 2007.
She is the author of a number of books and articles, including After Abolition (2007) and Britain, the Slave Trade and Slavery from 1562 to the 1880s (2007)