Easter Holidays Special: Black Heroes of World War 2, 15.4.10
Easter Holidays Special: Black S/Heroes of World War 2; Talk and Films Thursday 15th April 11.00am-2.00pm Venue: On confirmation of registration Area: SE1, ten minutes from tube Adm: By prior registration. 70 seats available, £2.00 donation per person Proceeds to Girl Child Concern, Kaduna State, Nigeria www.girlchildconcerns.org This event has been specially designed for those looking for someting culturally […]
Black British Footballers 1890-1990, 23 May
Saturday 23 May 1pm-4.30pm Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1.Tube: Lambeth North. Free entry: First come,first served www.iwm.org.uk Premiere of the new Walter Tull movie plus Q and A with BAFTA award winning director Alrick Riley who also directed Spooks, Hustle and Hotel Babylon. Walter Tull was one of the first black footballers.He was also […]
Before War and Windrush, 26 July
(left) Gershon Brown (Guyana) served in World War 1 and fought in a crucial battle in Palestine against the Turkish Army who were allies of the Germans (right) Eugent Clarke (Jamaica) also served in the British West Indies Regiment and was present at Taranto when the troops rebelled against being told to clean the toilets […]
Welcome Black ? 21 March
Above: Caribbean ex-servicemen returned to Britain after serving in WW2 Saturday 21 March 1pm-4.30pm Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1 Tube: Lambeth North. Free entry: First come,first served www.iwm.org.uk 1946 after black people had fought and died all over the world for Britain those still in England were told to go back where they had […]