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Daughters of Mandela and Malcolm X celebrate black history

Ian Burrell
Thursday 24 October 2002 00:00 BST
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Children and great-grand-children of some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the 20th century gathered yesterday to highlight the histories of black and Asian communities in the United Kingdom.

Yolanda King and Attallah Shabazz, daughters of the African-American human rights activists Dr Martin Luther King Jnr and Malcolm X, joined Zindzi Mandela, daughter of the former South African president Nelson Mandela, and Gamel Gorkeh Nkrumah, son of the former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah, for Black History Month.

An audience of school children, students, local authority workers and community groups were told of the achievements and experiences of the campaigners, as recalled by their relatives.

The conference, organised by Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, and held at the Trade Union Congress in London, was also addressed by Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, pacifist and a founder of modern India.

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