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This section presents a reference source on artists, scholars, associations, events and archives that had influenced black British cultural production from 1970 to 2001. In Trinidad in the 1940s and 1950s, John La Rose became involved in workers' rights movements, becoming general secretary of the West Indian Independence Party. Having settled in London, England in 1961, La Rose was an active member of Great Britain's black community in the early 1960s, founding New Beacon Books in 1966 and co-founding the Caribbean Artists' Movement. Artist Juginder Lamba emerged through the first survey exhibition of black art, Into the Open, but his involvement with black art was tangential and he was never part of the core group of subsequent shows. This was despite co-writing the first booklet attempting to present black art as a movement, The Artpack: A History of Black Artists in Britain. Derek Alvin Lilliard graduated from Epsom School of Art and Design in England with a Higher National Diploma in fashion and textile design in 1983. Between 1983 and 1985, he worked for Louis Daniel in London, and as a freelance designer in Paris. Lilliard established his label D.A. Lilliard in 1985, with the sale of an entire collection.