Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.80.1
Object Name
Poster
Title
BANGLADESHI YOUTH FRONT ... FREE ADVICE GIVEN ....
Place
London; Bangladesh
Date
1984
Description
This is a large green, red and white posters.The green and red reflect the Bangladeshi flag. This Bangladeshi Youth Front poster produced in the 1970s shows information and advice available for the local community, offering the Spitalfields centre as a place where people could meet. There is an address, and some of the services offered were rent and immigration advice. There is a calender underneath this. The Spitalfields centre is in Brick Lane, an area with a large Bangladeshi population, which is currently undergoing masses of gentrification. The East End and Brick Lane have a rich history of social and political activism. In 1978 a young Bangladeshi man Altab Ali was murdered in Londonâs East End in a racially motivated attack. His murder sparked national outrage, protests and grassroots activism against racism and white supremacy.
Racist hostility towards Black and Asian people during the 1970s was partly due to the rise of the National Front and far-right Nazism. These white supremacist, separatist beliefs permeated society. There were high levels of youth and student led activism in the 1970s and 1980s, such as the Bangladeshi Youth Front, School Kids against Nazis (SKAN), and other anti-racist Black and Asian youth movements.
