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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