Claudia Jones
✓ Source-basedstableTrinidad & Tobago-born black communist and political activist
Claudia Vera Jones was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation".
Also inDeutsch
Photos 10
Jones on the cover of the Young Communist Review, October 1938![Bandshell in Eastlake Park in Phoenix, Arizona, where in 1948 Jones spoke to a crowd of 1,000 people about equal rights for African Americans.[13]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Phoenix-Georgie_M._%26_Calvin_C._Goode_Bandshell-1945.JPG/1280px-Phoenix-Georgie_M._%26_Calvin_C._Goode_Bandshell-1945.JPG)
Bandshell in Eastlake Park in Phoenix, Arizona, where in 1948 Jones spoke to a crowd of 1,000 people about equal rights for African Americans.[13]
Jones in 1946
Jones and Betty Gannett in a police wagon in New York City after their bail was revoked, July 17, 1951
Jones's British passport
Grave of Jones in Highgate Cemetery
A blue plaque erected for Jones, Notting HillJournalists born in the 1910s 6
About this person
Claudia Vera Jones was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". Due to the political persecution of Communists in the US, she was deported in 1955 and subsequently lived in the United Kingdom. Upon arriving in the UK, she immediately joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and would remain a member for the rest of her life. In 1958, she founded Britain's first major Black newspaper, the West Indian Gazette (1958-1965), and from 1959 she organised a series of indoor Caribbean carnivals that have been cited as an influence on what became the Notting Hill Carnival, the second-largest annual carnival in the world.
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.