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The non-conformist heiress who sailed on the Windrush
JO STANLEY writes on the black rights activist and writer Nancy Cunard who travelled from the Caribbean on board the famous ship and arrived in Tilbury 70 years ago today
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STORIES of the now iconic Empire Windrush are usually told as if they concerned solely a voyage of Caribbean economic migrants.
But, actually, among the hundreds of white people aboard the ship was the famous writer, black rights activist and disinherited shipping heir Nancy Cunard.
Anorexic wild child Cunard had, since the 1920s, mixed with key black activists and artists such as US singer Paul Robeson and Trinidadian George Padmore, the editor of the Negro Worker.
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