Black History Month

Selection of educational material and handouts

Produced by students on the American Studies course unit Hip Hop Studies (AMER30051)

Working with Black Youth: complementary or

Photographs

The collection covers material relating to The Parents Centre and Education Shop throughout the period it was active. It includes papers, reports, photographs, newspaper articles and correspondence relating to the organisation. It also included project material relating to the Kosovo project that provided essential play activities for Kosova-Albanian refugee families that arrived at Manchester Airport in 1999.

Correspondence

Ann’s grandmother was White Irish and her grandfather Black Liberian. They met in Salford in the early part of the twentieth century. Ann’s mixed race mother was born in 1920. Ann's father was born in Liberia but grew up in Sierra Leone. Ann was born in Manchester in 1951.