Series II contains material related to Darcus Howe's political and community activism outside of his work with the Race Today Collective. It includes publications and printed ephemera related to the British Black Panther Movement. There is a small group of annotated witness statements from a 1969-1970 court case regarding an incident of police brutality toward David Oscar Cadogan. There is also material related to the Mangrove Nine Trial, including newsletters and printed ephemera distributed by community organizations associated with the British Black Panther Movement during the trial, and annotated court records obtained by Howe in 1990 for his own research. Materials created after the Mangrove Nine Trial include correspondence, newsletters and other publications, and speech transcripts related to the Trinidadian New Beginning Movement. There are also various audiovisual recordings and transcripts of speeches made by Darcus Howe and interviews of Darcus Howe. Much of Howe's later writing is located in Series III and IV. However, a 1998 proposal for a never-published memoir, England, My England, is located in this series.
Box 3 Folder 1
Photographs, circa 1970-2001
Box 3 Folder 2
United Kingdom political pamphlets, circa 1970-1987
Box 3 Folder 3
David Oscar Cadogan court documents, 1969-1970
With incomplete draft typescript of article on Cadogan case with edits by Darcus Howe.
Box 3 Folder 4
Black Panther Movement printed ephemera, 1970-1971
Box 3 Folder 5
Black People's Information Centre, National and International News Bulletin, 1971-1972
Box 3 Folder 6
Black Panther Movement, Freedom News, 1972-1973
Box 3 Folder 7
Black British newspaper article drafts and notes, circa 1970s
Box 3 Folder 8
Flambeau newspaper, 1971 March 3
With edited article drafts and printed publication.
Box 3 Folder 9
Notting Hill Carnival, 1971, 1976-2003
Box 3 Folder 10
Mangrove Nine Trial clippings and notes, 1970-1971
Includes an incomplete typescript outlining strategies for cross-examining police officers.
Box 3 Folder 11
Black People's Information Centre publications on the Mangrove Nine Trial, 1971
Box 3 Folder 12
Mangrove Nine Trial Court Report, 1971 October 5-December 3
Weekly community publication with updates on trial progress.
Box 12 Item 1
Mangrove Nine Trial, circa 1971, 1 open reel audiotapes
Box 3 Folder 13
Mangrove Nine Trial indictment, 1971
Box 3 Folder 14
Mangrove Nine Trial, index of statements, 1970-1971
Box 3 Folder 15-16
Mangrove Nine Trial statements of witnesses, 1970
Box 4 Folder 1-6
Mangrove Nine Trial cross examination transcripts, 1971 October-November, 6 folders
Box 4 Folder 7
Mangrove Nine Trial, Evidence of P. C. Pulley, volume 2, 1971 October 15-19
Box 4 Folder 8
Mangrove Nine Trial, Prosecution's closing speech transcript section on Darcus Howe, 1971
Box 4 Folder 9
Mangrove Management Committee and Mangrove Community Association, 1971-1986
Correspondence and other documents on community organizing efforts against continued police raids on the Mangrove Restaurant following the Mangrove Nine Trial.
Box 4 Folder 10
Correspondence on Mangrove Nine Trial transcripts, 1980, 1989-1990
Box 5 Folder 1
Co-ordinating Council Movement of Liberation, Trinidad and Tobago, "Policy Proposals for Liberation" (San Fernando, TT: Vanguard Publishing Co., 1970), 1970 December
Box 5 Folder 2
New Beginning Movement, 1971-1978
Correspondence, newsletters, and printed ephemera.
Box 5 Folder 3
Caribbean political publications and printed ephemera, 1972-1986
Box 5 Folder 4
Bukka Rennie, History of the Working-Class in the 20th Century--Trinidad and Tobago (Toronto: New Beginning Movement), 1974 February
Box 5 Folder 5
Wally Look Lai, The Present Stage of the Trinidad Revolution (Tunapuna, TT: New Beginning Movement), 1974 February
Box 18 Folder 1
Photograph of Darcus Howe at Imperial Typewriters Strike Rally, 1974
Box 5 Folder 6
Teachers' Action
, circa 1975-1977
Published by the Teachers' Action Collective, which included Farrukh Dhondy.
Box 5 Folder 7
Speaking engagements flyers, 1975-1993, undated
Box 5 Folder 8
Transcripts of two speeches by Darcus Howe, 1978 February 7, November 24
At Sussex University on February 7 and at North London Polytechnic on November 24.
Box 5 Folder 9-11
Speaking engagements correspondence, 1979-2004, undated, 3 folders
Box 6 Folder 1
Complaint against Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, 1979-1983
Box 6 Folder 2
Tricontinental no. 66, 1979
Box 17 Item 304
Walter Rodney memorial service and funeral, circa 1980, 1 videocassettes (VHS)
Box 12 Item 126
Recording of a hearing about how the Labour Party can better include and serve Black British people, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes
Box 6 Folder 3
Correspondence, 1983-2008
Box 6 Folder 4
Oilfields Workers Trade Union publications, 1984-1988
Box 6 Folder 5
Africa, Europe, Caribbean: Political Commentaries by Biodun Jeyifo, Darcus Howe, Tim Hector at a forum hosted by the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (San Francisco: Vanguard Publishing Co., 1984), 1984 September
Box 12 Item 94
Darcus Howe, "Blacks in the Labour Movement," Northern College, 1985 February 15, 1 audiocassettes
Box 6 Folder 6
Interviews and profile of Darcus Howe, 1986, 1989, undated
Box 6 Folder 7
Darcus Howe, "Europe Yesterday, Europe Today, and Europe Tomorrow," transcript of speech, circa 1988
Box 12 Item 129
"After Dread and Anger" with Kwesi Owusu, James Berry, Stuart Hall on Black identity in Britain, 1989, 1 audiocassettes; Side 1
Box 6 Folder 8
Darcus Howe, Eulogy for William Johnson, 1990 December 6
Box 12 Item 77
Darcus Howe Tribute to William Johnson, 1990 December 6, 1 audiocassettes; 77 side A
Box 12 Item 77
Antigua shipping inquiry, circa 1990 December, 1 audiocassettes; 77 side B
Recording of a meeting, press conference, or possibly a formal trial or inquest related to shipping and Antigua.
Box 12 Item 63
[NATO?] int. Trinidad P.M., 1990 July 31, 1 audiocassettes
Box 6 Folder 9
Notebooks, 1991
Box 15 Item 257
Communities of Resistance: Britain's Black Legacy, 1991, 1 videocassettes (VHS)
Box 6 Folder 10
Dolly A. McPherson interview of Darcus Howe transcript, 1992 June 29
Box 6 Folder 11
England, My England book proposal, 1998 July
Proposed memoir by Darcus Howe.
Box 12 Item 78
Radical and Popular [illegible] dissertation, undated, 1 audiocassettes
Box 12 Item 129
Darcus Howe on immigrant experience and organization in Britain, undated, 1 audiocassettes; Side 1
Box 12 Item 132
Darcus Howe speaking on the Soviet Union and China, undated, 1 audiocassettes
Box 12 Item 134
Darcus Howe on an Africa Center radio program, undated, 1 audiocassettes
Box 12 Item 137
Darcus Howe and Bala Usman speaking at "The Transition to Socialism and Building Socialist Societies: Advances and Difficulties" forum, undated, 1 audiocassettes