Resistance in a Hostile Environment: Subnormal

While young black adults were getting to grips with the struggle for black power in Britain, there was a question of how society viewed young black children. This disturbing documentary reveals how black children in the 1960s and 1970s were routinely sent to schools for the educationally subnormal, and how parents, activists and teachers came together to fight this injustice.

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