There is evidence of black people in our locality since 1724, but the number was very limited until the twentieth century, despite visits by American gospel choirs in Southall in the late nineteenth century. In the 1920s John Alexander Barbour James lived in Acton and Cleo Laine in Southall in the 1930s, but there were also instances of hostility to two other black residents. In the 1950s and 1960s numbers grew as black people took jobs in factories and elsewhere. There were also black students and clergymen and in the 1960s prominent photographer Stephen Manufor lived in Ealing and Jimi Hendrix visited Hanwell. The first local black group was founded in Acton in this decade.