This walk links the Imperial War Museum with the Cumin Museum of Ancient Egypt. It illustrates more than 200 years of Black history with tales of the Will Smith of 1800’s London, the strategic planning of the Windrush generation, African soldiers and their centuries of service to Britain, India and Africa’s enormous role in WW2. We cover:
- How Sam King the Jamaican RAF veteran fought the Far Right
- The Windrush generation and the fight for a place to sleep
- Immigration, regeneration and gentrification
- The Fisk Jubilee Singers
- African-Americans, academia and Queen Victoria
- Paul Robeson, Welsh miners, the Trocadero
- How organised Black British struggle changed the law
- No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish
- Mass media and Jewish refugees, Hitler and England
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Other coming events from Black History Walks
Other coming events from Black History Walks www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk
- Black History River Cruise
- 18th Century Superheroine Sarah Parker Remond
- Fibroids and reproductive health: new research from the Caribbean
- 20 Banned Black Films you need to see
- Tracing the money of the slave owners
- 1968 Race Relations Act and the legacy of Black Lawyers
- The sterilisation of Black Women without their consent and what can be done
- The Gentrification of Peckham and Black Urban removal worldwide
- Darcus Howe Weekender
- The British Black Panther Movement
- African Superheroes Day
- Kenyan Uprisings, through the Leopard’s Gaze