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- Jones taking a stand and protesting
- NO JUSTICE !NO PEACE !
- NO JUSTICE !NO PEACE !
- Jones being deported
- Jones served as the editor in chief for the West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News
- In the second major Smith Act trial, in 1953, Jones and 12 comrades were in the dock at Manhattan’s Foley Square Courthouse.. After sentencing, the prisoners were permitted to address the court—an excellent opportunity for Jones to offer an eloquent denunciation of the American system of justice that remains relevant after three-quarters of a century. She identified herself as a lifelong fighter for civil rights, “for full and unequivocal equality for my people, the Negro people, which as a Communist I believe can only be achieved allied to the cause of the working class.” She said she had learned about racism not in Trinidad but in the United States, “out of my Jim Crow experiences as a young Negro woman…the bitter indignity and humiliation of second-class citizenship, the special status which makes a mockery of our Government’s prated claims of a ‘free America’ in a ‘free world.’ ”
- Claudia Jones funeral and celebration
- In 1955, Jones began her sentence of a year and a day at the Federal Reformatory for Women at Alderson, West Virginia. She was released on 23 October 1955. She was refused entry to Trinidad and Tobago and was eventually offered residency in the United Kingdom on humanitarian grounds, and federal authorities agreed to allow it when she agreed to cease contesting her deportation. On December 7, 1955, at Harlem's Hotel Theresa, 350 people met to see her off. Jones arrived in London two weeks later, at a time when the British African-Caribbean community was expanding.She was arrested again in 1955 and subsequently sent to Federal prison. Since she never gained U.S. citizenship, Jones was deported from the United States to England where she immediately became involved in the various struggles of the West Indian community and other nationally oppressed groups
- In 1958, Jones founded and served as the editor in chief for the West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News - the UK’s first major black newspaper.Through its global news coverage, the Gazette aimed to unify the black community in the worldwide battle against discrimination, and provided a platform for Jones to organise the country’s first Caribbean carnival
- Claudia Jones died on Christmas Day age 49, 1964. Claudia Jones is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to the grave of Karl Marx. A post-mortem declared that she had suffered a massive heart attack, due to heart disease and tuberculosis. Her funeral on January 9, 1965 was a large and political ceremony,
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