Elephant & Castle Black History Walk

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This walk links the Imperial War Museum with the Cumin Museum of Ancient Egypt. It illustrates more than 200 years of #Blackhistory 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