| Description | Exhibition panels containing text and illustrations about the history of Indian Workers Association campaigns from the 1950s to 1979.
The first panel contains text describing the Indian Workers Association's role in the trade union movement and in the struggles of black and Asian workers fighting racial discrimination in employment, together with photographs from demonstrations, picket lines and strike meetings during the 1960s and 1970s. The panel includes the heading 'Black Workers and the Trade Unions'
The second panel focuses on campaigns against immigration control during the 1960s and 1970s, and includes reproductions of photographs, newspaper articles and posters illustrating the role played by the Indian Workers Association.
The third panel is devoted to cultural events organised by the Indian Workers Association and includes examples of Jagmohan Joshi's Urdu poetry together with photographs of him at poetry performances. Some of the text on this panel mentions the production of a recording of poems by the revolutionary Punjabi poet Sant Ram Udassi by the Indian Workers Association and the Indian Peoples Association of North America [IPANA] in 1979.
The fourth panel is smaller than the rest, and measures 520mm x 801mm. It contains text on Indian Workers Association campaigns against racist attacks on black and Asian people living in Britain. |