Lasting less than a week at the end of the summer of 1958, the riots that erupted between Friday the 29th of August and Friday the 5th of September in London’s Notting Hill district proved to be a turning point not only in race relations but in perceptions of the teddy boys. Here’s a nice short introduction to the Riots by ‘lapsed anarchist’ Ray Jones:
See also articles on Are teds racist?, 1959 Teds and rude boys, 1958 National Association of Teddy Boys.
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