Please note that this event has already occured.
Key information
Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 3:40pm to 4:40pm
Venue: Elephant and Castle, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB, GB
This event was postponed following the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and will now take place on 28th September.
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
Other coming events from Black History Walks
**Book Launch: 'Black History Walks in London Volume 1'.
This is part of Black publishing house, Jacaranda Books revolutionary Twenty in 2020 initiative to publish 20 books by 20 Black British authors in 2020. An unprecedented feat. 'Black History Walks in London Volume 1' is the 20th of that series but was delayed to this year due to the Coronavirus, it will be released later this year.
Other coming events from Black History Walks
- Black History River Cruise 1st October
- Dr Cecil Belfield Clarke (League of Coloured Peoples) plaque unveiling
- Battlestar Galactica's Black history
- Andromeda, Queen of Sheba and Black women in European art
- Special screening of Marikana massacre at BFI Southbank
- The road to Black Panther 2 @phoenixcinema
- Trafalgar Square, St Paul's, Hackney, Soho, Notting Hill,Harlem in Mayfair walks
- Pilots of the Caribbean and the Tuskeegee airmen
- African Superheroes Day @phoenixcinema
- How to teach Black History at GCSE
- Black presence in the National Gallery/Wallace Collection
- Black History bus tour sponsored by the Mayor of London
- Starrship and the voyage to Mars
- Pilots of the Caribbean + Tuskeegee Airmen (RED TAILs)