Black History London Map: Guide to Black Historical Landmarks in London (Blue Crow Media Architecture Maps)

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Across the network there are more than 500 uniformed officers undertaking compliance activity across London, with non-exempt customers who fail to comply may be refused travel. Known for his memoir which recounted his enslavement and subsequent escape. He later settled in Britain asaherbalist It is fantastic to see the true scale and breadth of this contribution commemorated on TfL's iconic Tube map - a symbol so synonymous with London and the UK.' First mixed heritage commissioned officer of the Royal Navy and was regarded as one of the most successful captains of the Georgian Navy

Boxer and Olympian who represented Great Britain in the Antwerp Summer Olympics of 1920. He was also given a Military Medal for Bravery for his participation in WWI from the British Army Community activist, civil rights campaigner who owned the Mangrove Restaurant in Notting Hill. He was also one of the Mangrove 9, who was charged and then acquitted for inciting violentprotests againstrepeated police raids on his premises.

One of the Mangrove 9 who was arrested following aprotest againstpolice raids at the Mangrove club in Notting Hill in 1970 ThroughoutWorld War II she enjoyed the same appeal as the ‘Forces Sweetheart’, Vera Lynn. The BBC employed Evelyn all through the war, and she proved to be one of radio’s most popular singers.🎤Herbrother and sisterwere also high achievers – her brother served in the Battle of Cambrai and was awarded the Military Medal and her sister was a journalist,politicianandwriter. Victorialine–Literary world💙

Paulette Wilson was an activist who fought her own deportation to Jamaica and brought media attention to the human rights violations of the Windrush scandal.Wilson arrived in the UK aged 10 to live with her grandparents and spent most of her adult life working as a chef, includingin the House of Commonsrestaurant. As well as his exceptionally long service, Momodou was also decorated for saving a passenger’s life. In 1962, when working as a relief signalman at Covent Garden Underground station, Momodou noticed a man walking past his signal cabin into the path of an oncoming train from Holborn. He immediately set all signals to danger and dashed into the Tube tunnel to save the man, with the train braking to a halt only ten yards in front ofthem. AVRIL: I live in Enfield, north London. I have lived here since 2000 and enjoy the fact that we are only 10 minutes from the countryside where my husband and I can go and enjoy walks and Sunday lunch in a riverside pub. The area is quite rural in parts, but I also live close to a local station which takes you directly into Liverpool Street within 20 mins. Medical researcher, civil servant, and writer, with an award in her name to recognise LGBTinvididualswho have excelled in their field Louis was also known as a dancer, ragtime singer and comedian in tramway social events and concerts. His sporting talents also extended to winning the LUT heavyweight boxing title in 1913, and a one-mile walking handicap race at Griffin Park in 1914. Louis had married Ethel Elizabeth Dunn in 1911 and the couple had a son namedDennis.Jamaican born settler to Edinburgh John Edmonstone who taught Charles Darwin taxidermy, who replaces Upminster Bridge station Jazz, soul, funk, and electronic singer and songwriter who had 2 UK Top 10 hits and worked with Goldie and Moby Singer,musician,and cabaret star in the 1920s and 1930s. High profile relationships with women and men include Ivor Novello and Cole Porter

Artist and leading figure in Britain's BLK Arts Groups in the 1980s and became recognised as one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his generation Actor and a key figure during the Harlem Renaissance. Her open relationship with a female English aristocrat transcended both racial and sexual boundaries of the timePianist, conductor, and composer. First female conductor of HMS Royal Marines and daughter of acclaimed composer and conductor, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Enslaved by the 7th Earl of Suffolk, his grave isinscribedwith his poem 'I who am a slave' which has a grade II listing Sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist who was also responsible for the first-ever cultural studies course in the UK Louis was born in Edinburgh in 1875 and was brought up in Plymouth. In 1900, he was licensed to drive trams for the London United Tramways (LUT). He stands driving the tram in this photograph from 1906, in his role as a senior tram driver. Standing next to him in full regalia is the Mayor of Kingston, Alderman Henry Charles Minnitt, positioned to ceremonially drive the tram on its first journey over Kingston Bridge. Standing in front of the tram on the right is Sir James Clifton Robinson, the LUT Managing Director, who deployed Louis to drive his personal tram,No.320. In a bid for his freedom from enslavement, he was instrumental in a 1772 court case thatconfimedslavery was not legal in England