direct to your inboxTributes have been paid to a much loved ‘icon’ in the Afro-Caribbean community of Manchester.Elouise Edwards MBE was a community activist and life long campaigner for racial equality and justice, involved in over 35 organisations in Greater Manchester.Lovingly known as 'Mama Edwards', she was at the forefront of the push for equality in Manchester for new Windrush arrivals and their children.She sadly passed away on Saturday 22nd January 2021 aged 88.Elouise Chandler, the youngest of ten children, was born in Guyana, South America, in 1932.Her father was a civil engineer who extracted gold from the goldfields of Guyana and her mother was a housewife.In 1955, she married Beresford Edwards at St George’s Cathedral,.
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