Congratulations must go to your staff who produced the excellent pullout of June 20 and July 6, 1937 as a supplement with the Labour Day edition of the T&T Guardian.It was fascinating reading about the actual local and global events of those days.
In addition to the Butler riots, my family was able to make links with the articles on: Amelia Earhart and her disappearance in 1937 to the present day 2013 activities which seem to have located her plane wreck underwater; the Hindenberg (which subsequently crashed and burned in New Jersey); Adolf Hitler which chronicled some of his activities leading up to the start of World War II in September 1939.
This pullout should be required reading in all schools. The old adage from George Santayana still holds–those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Linus F Didier
Mt Hope