The Grenadian Revolution, Part 4: A Jewel Shines Through
Content Warning: This episode discusses and recounts instances of police brutality.
As Sir Eric Gairy’s tenure as head of government continued throughout the 1970’s, the country was on the brink of economic and social collapse. In the wake of Bloody Sunday and Bloody Monday occurred, two of the most ferocious cases of police brutality in Caribbean history, Gairy was beginning to face opposition from all sides. However of all the oppositions, one stood out: an organised group of young professionals who called themselves the New Jewel Movement.
Additional Knowledge
BOOKS
Black Power in the Caribbean by Kate Quinn
Big Revolution, Small Country: The Rise and Fall of the Grenada Revolution by Jay R. Mandle
Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada by Brian Meeks
Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution by Laurie R. Lambert
Grenada: A History of Its People by Beverley A. Steele
Grenada: Tale of Uncle Gairy by Frank McDonald
Grenada: The Peaceful Revolution by Catherine Sunshine and Philip Wheaton
Grenada: The Jewel Deposited by Gordon K. Lewis
Race and Revolutionary Consciousness: A Documentary Interpretation of the 1970 Black Power Revolt in Trinidad by Ivar Oxaal
Reform and Revolution in Grenada, 1950 to 1981 by David Lewis
The Commission of Inquiry Into The Breakdown of Law and Order and Police Brutality in Grenada
The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity by A.W. Singham
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
We Move Tonight by Joseph Ewart Layne
FICTIONAL BOOKS
Angel” A Novel by Merle Collins
ACADEMIC PAPERS
A Caribbean Story: Grenada's Journey - Possibilities, Contradictions, Lessons by Merle Collins
Charismatic Leadership and Popular Support: A Comparison of the Leadership Styles of Eric Gairy And Maurice Bishop by Pedro A. Noguera
Between Populism and Leninism: The Grenadian Experience by Colin Henfrey
Grenada: Eric Matthew Gairy and the Politics of Extravagance by Frank McDonald
Grenada In Contemporary Historiography by Ron Sookram
Grenada: Maxi-Crisis for Mini-State by Tony Thorndike
In the Legacy of Marronage: The Sir George Williams Affair and Acts of Refusal, Protest, and Care by Kelann Currie-Williams
Rastafari in the Grenada Revolution by Arthur Newland
Ressentiment and the Gairy Social Revolution by Oliver Benoit
Roots, Rhizomes and Resistance: Remembering the Sir George Williams Student Uprising by Adaeze Greenidge and Levi Gahman
Shifts in Grenadian Migration: An Historical Perspective by Gail R. Pool
The Black Power Movement in Trinidad and Tobago by Jerome Teelucksingh
The Black Power Power Movement in in Trinidad: An Exploration of Gender and Cultural Changes and the Development of a Feminist Consciousness by Victoria Pasley
The Grenada General Election of 1976 by Patrick Emmanuel
The Rastafarians In The Eastern Caribbean by Horace Campbell
What Happened? Grenada: A Retrospective Journey by Merle Collins
ARTICLES
Caribbean Life and Times: Revolution in Grenada: An Interview with Maurice Bishop
CBC: How the Sir George Williams Protest Changed the Conversation About Racism in Canada
National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago: Women in the Black Power Movement
The McGill Daily: Memories of the Sir George Williams Affair - Fifty Years Late by Athina Khalid
Caribbean Women and Politics by the Merle Hodge
DOCUMENTARIES
Grenada: Colonialism and Conflict directed by Valerie Scoon
70: Remembering a Revolution (2010) directed by Alex DeVerteui and Elizabeth Topp
Caribbean Resources Institute - Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us (1983)
Four Years of Love: The Grenada Revolution (2021) directed by Richard Audley Vaughan
Ninth Floor (2015) directed by Mina Shum
The Story of Sir Eric Gairy directed by Bev Sinclair
TTT Live Online: Remembering 1970 - The Black Power Revolution
PODCAST
Lest We Forget: The Banning of Dr. Clive Y. Thomas By The Jamaican Government
Lest We Forget: The Walter Rodney Riots