Connie Matthews, one of the Black Panthers who lived in Scandinavia during the 1960-ies. Here in an 1969 interview in "Land og Folk".
In the 1968 Davis Cup tennis tournament Sweden was pitted against Rhodesia. The fact that the Swedish team where to meet that of an apartheid dictatorship outraged a lot of people in Sweden and a protest demonstration was organized to try and prevent the match from taking place.
During the spring of 2010 I’ll be working on a radio documentary for Sveriges Radio P3 about BÃ¥stad. In particular I’m interested in telling the stories of immigrants who where there. Too often when the history of the Swedish 60ies is told the role of non-swedes is downplayed. Immigrants to Sweden during the post war decades are mostly thought of in terms of unskilled work force immigration but seldom as participants who actively shaped (or tried to shape) the political landscape of Sweden.
Where you in BÃ¥stad? Do you know someone who was there? Do you know of someone who was there? Please get in touch! Call me on my cellphone +46709304030, send me an email oivvio@polite.se or just add a comment to this post.
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