Hugh Shearer October 1968 when his government banned the historian, Walter Rodney from re-entering the country. On 16 October a series of riots, known as the Rodney Riots broke out, after peaceful protest by students from the University of the West Indies campus at Mona, was suppressed by police; rioting spreading throughout Kingston. Shearer stood by the ban claiming that Rodney was a danger to Jamaica, citing his socialist ties, trips to Cuba and the USSR, as well as his radical Black nationalism. Shearer was generally uncomfortable with notions of pan-Africanism or militant black nationalism. He was also insecure about the stability
Spencer Rodney, 5th Baron Rodney Spencer Rodney, 5th Baron Rodney Spencer Rodney, 5th Baron Rodney (30 April 1785 – 15 May 1846) was an English peer and clergyman, styled The Honourable Spencer Rodney from 1802 until 1843. Rodney was educated at Westminster School and then matriculated at All Souls College, Oxford, which presented him to the living of Elmley, Kent in 1805. He took his BA from All Souls in 1807 and was elected a Fellow of the College; he later took his MA from All Souls in 1811. Rodney was appointed honorary vicar of Wonastow, Monmouthshire and rector of Luddenham, Kent in 1812. In