Earle Robinson Receives Community Award, 1981

Earle Robinson Receives Community Award, 1981

Caribbean

Activism

Robinson, Earle

Earle Robinson, born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1935 before moving to Leicester as a teenager, was a committed activist throughout his life, and was instrumental to the foundation and survival of the Leicester Afro-Caribbean Centre. This photo shows him receiving an award in London at an event sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, aimed at highlighting the work community work of activists up and down the country. This photo was originally shown in The Times, and reproduced in the Leicester Mercury.

Leicester Mercury

Leicester Mercury Archive at the University of Leicester

Leicester Mercury

1981 (exact date unknown)

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Photograph

London