Trevor Carter

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Trevor Carter
Born	Trevor Clarence Carter (1930-10-09)9 October 1930 Woodbrook, Port of Spain, British Trinidad
Died	March 2008(2008-03-00) (aged 77) Archway, London, England
Occupations	Educator government official
Organizations	Young Communist League Black Theatre Co-operativeWar on Want
Known for	Civil rights, equal opportunity and education activism
Notable work	Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics (1986)
Political party	CPGB (until 1991) Labour (1990s)
Spouse	Corinne Skinner-Carter ​ ​ (m. 1955)​
Relatives	Claudia Jones (cousin)
Honours	Recommended by the education authority for an OBE for his role in the Swann Report (rejected by Carter)

Trevor Carter (9 October 1930 – March 2008) was a British communist party leader, educator, black civil rights activist, and co-founder of the Caribbean Teachers Association. He served as the head of equal opportunities for the Inner London Education Authority. He co-authored the 1986 book Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics.

Writers on British socialist movements have described Carter as "one of the Communist Party of Great Britain's (CPGB) most important black members" from the mid-1950s until 1991.^[1] Carter was a communist activist, and a member of the CPGB from his arrival in Britain in 1954 until the party was dissolved in 1991. Cheddi Jagan invited Carter to British Guiana to work in education.

Carter was the stage manager of the first British-Caribbean Carnival, held in St Pancras Town Hall, and later a Trustee of the Notting Hill Carnival Trust.^[2] Together his cousin Claudia Jones, and wife, the EastEnders actress Corinne Skinner-Carter, they helped establish the second-largest annual carnival in the world, London's Notting Hill Carnival.