"Merle Major is credited with saving {the Notting Hill} Carnival in 1972. ... She was a local woman who stepped up to the task of leading the event when it was facing financial ruin, and was under tremendous pressure from the authorities and the media who were calling for it to be either shut down or restricted to an indoor venue or a park." She stepped down the following year. From Trinidad.
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Merle Major
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