Frank Crichlow
British community activist and civil rights campaigner (1932– 2010) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frank Gilbert Crichlow (13 July 1932 – 15 September 2010) was a British community activist and civil rights campaigner, who became known in 1960s London as a godfather of black power activism.[1] He was a central figure in the Notting Hill Carnival. His restaurant, The Mangrove in All Saints Road, served for many years as the base from which activists, musicians, and artists organised the event.
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Born | Frank Gilbert Crichlow (1932-07-13)13 July 1932 Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
Died | 15 September 2010(2010-09-15) (aged 78) London, England |
Occupation | Community activist |
Known for | The Mangrove restaurant |
Children | 4, inc. Lenora Crichlow |
Crichlow was one of the Black activists known as the Mangrove Nine, who were charged in 1970 with inciting a riot following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant. The defendants were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police.