About This Item
Identifier
101-0002-028
Title
Interview with Sunday Dennis & Eva Dennis. Tape 2
Description
Sons of Africa
Type
Item
Format
2 Compact Audio Tape
Date
04 Jul 1984
Contributor
BHAC
Language
English
Rights
Copyright situation unknown/other, contact HCE
Publisher
Contact HCE if you would like to use or reproduce this item
Relation
101-0002-026, 101-0002-027, 101-0002-029
Interviewee
Sunday Dennis, Eva Dennis
Interviewer
Glenn Jordan
Transcription
No
Summary
Her experience in Africa; America and Britain discrimination; Working with Paul Robeson and his imprisonment for being a communist; Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and Eva's show business life; Prominent figures of Butetown life (1930's -40's); Sundays's African club, Edward Dorning; Difficulty for Africans when first coming to Cardiff starvation, how unclaimed corpses were treated; The suspicious death of one of Eva's lodgers; One of the victims wives named Freeman; Examples of funeral practices (1920's); Obi Grants gambling den 'Lucifer's ' treatment by the police after incident in 1936; Difficulties for coloured girls to find work before WWII but did after WWII; Discrimination against Harlem Globetrotters by Cardiff Hotel; Old Butetown close knit community, discrimination in Cardiff today; Sunday's recollections of a Mr Enfield (ex-seaman from the Docks) involvement with the United Sons of Africa; Sunday helping the local community, what Enfield represented to Sunday; Jacob Enfield - Sunday's belief in his greatness; Marcus Garvey and his ship; Experiences during the War as a seaman - Marcus Garvey; Frances Elong came to Cardiff (born in Cameroon); Mr Shepherd upon the local community's politics and religion.
Digital File
No
Storage Location
Glamorgan Archives and National Library of Wales
Conditions of Access
Open
British Library Ref
UNLW023/237
Relation: UNLW023/235-238
Citation
“Interview with Sunday Dennis & Eva Dennis. Tape 2,” The Heritage & Cultural Exchange Archive, accessed May 19, 2024, https://hcearchive.org.uk/items/show/6559.