Correction
A correction came in from Larry Smith:
I note the following on your website: “The creation of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) by black activists in 1955 ushered the Bahamas into the era of the political party.”
My understanding is that the PLP was formed in 1953 by mixed race (or conchy joe) activists like H M Taylor and Cyril Stevenson, although the party’s support came mostly from black Bahamians.
He is of course quite correct.
I will have to double check the original source that I used (Doris Johnson’s Quiet Revolution (which should have had the correct date) ) to get to the root of the problem, but for now I have changed the text and the citation to point to Saunders and Craton’s Islanders in the Stream vol 2 and used their “non-white” nomenclature instead of my previous “black activists.”
Thanks Larry!