On October 15th of 1968, the University of the West Indies lecture, Dr. Walter Rodney, was banned from entering the country; that left his pregnant wife and son in Jamaica without him. When students at UWI learned that their professor was barred from re-entry in the country and stranded on an airplane, a protest organised by the UWI Guild of Students at the university would take place. The protest, the largest student organised protest in Caribbean history, would erupt into unrest which would become known as the Walter Rodney Riots of 1968. What would transpire is levels of anti-blackness, violations of human rights, police brutality, government propaganda and nationalism, that ripple throughout the Jamaican society and the Caribbean in the days to follow after the largest

Song: Riot - Damion Marley and Sean Paul

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