British African-Caribbean people the wartime bombing, and the shortage led to some of the first clashes with the established white community. Clashes continued and worsened into the 1950s, and riots erupted in cities including London, Birmingham and Nottingham. In 1958, attacks in the London area of Notting Hill by white youths marred relations with West Indian residents, and the following year as a positive response by the Caribbean community an indoor carnival event organised by "West Indian Gazette" editor Claudia Jones took place in St Pancras Town Hall, and would be a precursor to what became the annual Notting Hill Carnival. Some of
Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale of the building as well as the stained glass. In the 1960s, the University bought the building, along with the surrounding buildings, then known as Frat Row, in response to withering undergraduate fraternity life and a new desire for social equality that was contradictory to what the fraternity system traditionally stood for. Today, the building contains a library, a game room (known as the Lighten Room), a kitchen, and several large multipurpose rooms. The center features 30 student organizations ranging from academic, cultural, political/ethnic, performance, community service and Greek life. Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale The Afro-American Cultural Center at