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Trevor Carter | |
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| Born | Trevor Clarence Carter 9 October 1930 |
| Died | March 2008 (aged 77) Archway, London, England |
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| Known for | Civil rights, equal opportunity and education activism |
| Notable work | Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics (1986) |
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| Relatives | Claudia Jones (cousin) |
| Honours | Recommended by the education authority for an OBE for his role in the Swann Report (rejected by Carter) |
Trevor Carter (9 October 1930 – March 2008) was a British communist party leader, educator, black civil rights activist, and co-founder of the Caribbean Teachers Association. He served as the head of equal opportunities for the Inner London Education Authority. He co-authored the 1986 book Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics.
Writers on British socialist movements have described Carter as "one of the Communist Party of Great Britain's (CPGB) most important black members" from the mid-1950s until 1991.[1] Carter was a communist activist, and a member of the CPGB from his arrival in Britain in 1954 until the party was dissolved in 1991. Cheddi Jagan invited Carter to British Guiana to work in education.
Carter was the stage manager of the first British-Caribbean Carnival, held in St Pancras Town Hall, and later a Trustee of the Notting Hill Carnival Trust.[2] Together his cousin Claudia Jones, and wife, the EastEnders actress Corinne Skinner-Carter, they helped establish the second-largest annual carnival in the world, London's Notting Hill Carnival.
- ^ [unreliable source?] Meddick, Simon; Payne, Liz; Katz, Phil (2020). Red Lives: Communists and the Struggle for Socialism. United Kingdom: Manifesto Press Cooperative Limited. p. 32.
- ^ Wong, Ansel (October 2009). "National Discourse on Carnival Arts" (PDF). Carnival Village. p. 34. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2021.