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"This is a powerful analysis of a black working class woman who rose from a tenement slum in intensely racialized British Guiana to become a leading anti-colonialism, workers' rights and women's liberation activist in Britain. Tomlinson details Huntley's participation with actions such as the International Bookfair of Radical Black and Third World Books and her role at Bogle L'Ouverture Publications and its radical bookshop. Based on archival research and over 40 interviews with Huntley's closest family members and associates, it re-writes the history of a period and a struggle often told through a master discourse that is male, middle-class and privileged"--