101-0002-029

Interview with Sunday Dennis & Eva Dennis. Tape 3

Sons of Africa

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2 Compact Audio Tape

04 Jul 1984

BHAC

English

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101-0002-026, 101-0002-027, 101-0002-028

Sunday Dennis, Eva Dennis

Glenn Jordan

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Sunday's views on Chalky White; K Trottman; Eva's views on change in Tiger Bay after 1976; Eva nicknamed with Africans 'Queen of Tiger Bay'; White middle classes in Tiger Bay; The scattering of the old community; Eva's lodger - Trinidadian trumpet player Michael was hanged for murder; Chalky White; Gambling den and police presence in old Butetown; Boundary at the bridge for U.S. troops during the War and how they used to smuggle them down; Bomb damage to the Docks; The visiting G.I. brides: A girl's murder in Tiger Bay; Discrimination in Cardiff and the failure of whites to recognise it, as they live separately; Bombing of North Church St; Gamblers shot at by plane in Butetown, ships sank; The crossing of the first coloured crew to arrive at Butetown; The death of men from Butetown at the Aberthaw disaster; White American M.P.'s discrimination, barring of black soldiers from Butetown; 'Trainer' killed by M.P's; How blacks were placed at the front at Dunkirk; Eva's restaurant during the War, instance of white U.S. soldiers being banned by her; Martin Luther King; Eva's club getting her own back; Her stay in hospital after being bombed in a convoy. Sunday's involvement with military during the War; Joe Erskine - the boxer.

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Glamorgan Archives and National Library of Wales

Open

UNLW023/238

Relation: UNLW023/235-237