Life | Did you go to Båstad in 1968? Get in touch! |
| Written by urbanlife.se |
| Friday, 05 February 2010 21:56 |
 In the 1968 Davis Cup tennis tournament Sweden was pitted against Rhodesia. The fact that the Swedish team where to meet that of an apartheid dictatorship outraged a lot of people in Sweden and a protest demonstration was organized to try and prevent the match from taking place. (Picture left: Connie Matthews, one of the Black Panthers who lived in Scandinavia during the 1960's. Here in an 1969 interview in "Land og Folk".) During the spring of 2010 Oivvio Polite will be working on a radio documentary for Sveriges Radio P3 about Båstad. In particular he's interested in telling the stories of immigrants who where there. Too often when the history of the Swedish 60's is told the role of non-swedes is downplayed. Immigrants to Sweden during the post war decades are mostly thought of in terms of unskilled work force immigration but seldom as participants who actively shaped (or tried to shape) the political landscape of Sweden. Where you in Båstad? Do you know someone who was there? Do you know of someone who was there? Please get in touch! Call Oivvio on cellphone +46709304030, send an email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or just add a comment below.
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