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Reference NumberP/ULL/8/8
LevelFile
Title75th Anniversary of Battle of Cable Street
Date(s)2011
Description12 colour photographs. Photographer: Ansar Ahmed Ullah.
Mainly show the March with banners to celebrate the anniversary, October 2011. Includes Altab Ali Memorial Foundation, Bangladesh Welfare Association and Nirmul Committee banners. Individuals depicted include: Nooruddin Ahmed; Ansar Ahmed Ullah; Ruhul Amin; Syed Nurul Islam; Rajonuddin Jalal and Nurul Islam.
The March was organised by community leaders of 1970s and 1980s. Most of these leaders were founding members of local youth organisations, which emerged following the death of Altab Ali in 1978. The March was organised to highlight many of the issues experienced by the Jewish Community in the 1930s was similar to what the Bengali Community faced in the 1970s and 1980s.

Also 1 digital copy of original black and white photograph. Photographer: Phil Maxwell.
Bigland Crass, 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, 1986. Shows Ansar Ahmed Ullah on stage.
Extent13 digital (TIF) photographs
CategoryPhotographs
FormatDigital
Photograph
Access StatusOpen
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