Timeline part 7 (1962-1968)
Party Politics in the West Indies. San Juan, Port of Spain: Vedic Enterprises (1962).
Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine split from CLR James and Martin Glaberman but continue publishing.
C.L.R returns to London from Trinidad .
31 August: Trinidad achieves independence from the U.K. Burundi, Jamaica, Western Samoa and Uganda are other countries to achieve independence in 1962.
August – November: Cuban missile crisis-USSR attempts to build missile bases in Cuba; President Kennedy orders a Cuban blockade, which he lifts only after Russians back down.
Most of his book on Ghana is finished by end of 1962.
Marxism and the intellectuals, Detroit, Facing Reality Publishing Committee (1962).
A revised second edition of The Black Jacobins is published. It includes minor alterations to the text by James and the inclusion of a new appendix, From Toussaint L’Ouverture to Fidel Castro.
28 August: A civil rights rally is held by 200,000 blacks and whites in Washington, D.C.; Martin Luther King delivers his “I have a dream” speech.
Beyond a Boundary. London: Stanley Paul/Hutchinson (1963). New edition, New York: Pantheon (1984).
Kenya achieves independence.
11 June: The South African government sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment.
1 February: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 other blacks are arrested in Selma, Alabama, during three-day demonstrations against voter-registration rules.
21 February: Malcolm X, the U.S. black-nationalist leader, is shot and killed at a Harlem rally in New York City.
C.L.R. returns to Trinidad (initially to cover a Test match) and stays until the end of 1966.
Placed under house arrest for 6 weeks when he arrives in Trinidad.
Founds the Workers’ and Farmers’ Party with Stephen Maharaj and George Weekes (president of the Trinidadian Oilfield Workers Trade Union [OWTU]). Holds the position of general secretary and editor of its paper, We the People.
A stone thrown at James narrowly misses his head at a Workers’ and Farmers’ Party rally. Becomes convinced he is a target for assassination and refuses to leave house without bodyguard for next few months.
James’s defeat in Trinidadian elections- last issue of We the People.
C.L.R. returns to London (end of 1966).
29 January: President Julius Nyrere of Tanzania issues Arusha Declaration.
August: delivers an address in London on topic of ‘Black Power’ praising the civil rights leader Stokeley Carmichael. https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1967/black-power.htm
‘The Black Jacobins’ [play] revised and retitled version of James’ 1936 play is produced by Decter Lyndersay at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
January: visits Cuba.
January – February: The Tet offensive, the turning point in the Vietnam War.
24 February – 28 March: C.L.R. visits Nigeria.
28 March: C.L.R arrives in Tanzania.
4 April: Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis.
April: C.L.R. James returns to London.
May – June: Paris student-led uprising.