Albert Gordon, who had come to Britain from Jamaica in 1960, became Cambridge's first black pub landlord in 1971, running the Midland Tavern in Devonshire Street with his wife Lorna. He secured a dancing license for the pub, and was "a driving force of West Indian culture for the city" throughout the 1970s.Debbie Luxon, Cambridge’s first Black pub landlord who broke every social barrier, Cambridge News, 11 October 2020. Accessed 7 November 2020.Penny Gordon, Memories of Growing up in The Midland Tavern, Museum of Cambridge. Accessed 7 November 2020. In 1980 the Cambridge Black Women's Support Group (CBWSG) was established as a house group, providing social and educational opportunities for black women and holiday playschemes for children. In 1990 the CBWSG established the Mary Seacole day nursery. Women from the group read the work of African American women writers like Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and Audrey Lorde, and went together to see Toni Morrison when she visited Cambridge.
