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Moments in Time - A look at history to inform the present

Moments in time is an archive of historical events, people and places.

 

Walter Tull: First British-born black army officer

Walter Tull was one of Britain’s first black footballers and a First World War hero. Walter Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent on 28 April 1888. His father Daniel Tull, …

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History of Lewisham Hospital

Back in 2012, plans were proposed to downgrade Lewisham Hospital by closing its Accident and Emergency services and Maternity unit. The people of Lewisham and elsewhere, came together to protest …

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Broadway theatre and town hall in Catford

Moments in time: Broadway Theatre, Catford

The Broadway Theatre, Catford has had many names over the decades. It started out as a concert hall extension to Lewisham Town Hall called uninspiringly “Town Hall Extension”. In 1926, …

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Moments in time: Lewisham Town Hall and the formation of the Council

The building we now call the Old Town Hall in Catford isn’t that old and wasn’t the first Town Hall to be built along the strip of Road now known …

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John Hanson of Liberia seated at a desk

This John Hanson was not the first Black President of the United States

There are many who claim that John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States, not Barack Obama. This tale is continuously shared on social media. Because many …

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The untold history of Jamaica

This is a lecture that contradicts what we know of our history. It manages to span over 10,000 years of our history in under an hour. It looks at the …

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Sandra Bland – Say her name

Sandra Bland is another black life lost under hinky police circumstances. The 28-year-old’s death in a Texas county jail on 13 July, three days after a routine traffic stop turned …

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The burning of Greenwood aka Black Wall Street

Greenwood, Tulsa was once a prosperous, modern, cultured Black community known as Black Wall Street until it was burned down by envious racists.

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Norman Manley

History of Jamaica Welfare

Jamaica Welfare was founded by Norman Manley in 1937. It was the first large scale social welfare organisation on the island. It was formed from suggestions Manley made to United …

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The death penalty is flawed: The case of Glenn Ford

On hearing that Clayton Lockett suffered during his botched execution many of you may have looked at his crime before deciding whether he was worthy of your compassion.  That’s okay, …

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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester …

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Rastafari movement

Marcus Garvey’s prophecies and philosophy shaped, the Rastafari movement. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on the 17th of August 1887, in Jamaica. His teachings of black self empowerment are credited …

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Rosa Parks on the bus

Rosa Parks – civil rights activist

Civil rights leader Rosa Parks was honoured with a commemorative statue in the US Capitol building in Washington DC on Wednesday 27 February 2013. Parks’ refusal to give up her …

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Before Rosa Parks – Ida B Wells

Ida B Wells was born into slavery on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her father, James, was a carpenter and her mother, Elizabeth, was a famous cook. Both …

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The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition

  CONTENTS Preface Ida B. Wells I Introduction Frederick Douglass II Class Legislation Ida B. Wells III The Convict Lease System Ida B. Wells IV Lynch Law Ida B. Wells …

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Southern Horrors – Lynch Law in All Its Phases – by Ida B Wells

Southern Horrors – Lynch Law in All Its Phases was written by activist Ida B Wells. Preface Hon. Fred. Douglass’s Letter The Offense The Black And White Of It The …

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Princess Sara Forbes-Bonetta-Davies

Sarah Forbes Bonetta was the princess, born into the Egbado royal family of south-western Nigeria, who became a favourite of Queen Victoria and a regular visitor to Windsor Castle. Sarah …

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Chairman Fred Hamption

The truth about Fred Hampton’s murder

Fred Hampton was a political activist born August 30, 1948. He was killed as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois …

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500 Years Later

Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally – Why? 500 years later from the onset of …

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Smith and Carlos doing the Black power salute at the 1968 olympics

Tommie Smith and John Carlos – Black Power Salute

On 16 October 1968 American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos took a stand that would see them banished from the Olympic games. In 1968, the United States already had …

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Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche – the only black man to have died on the Titanic

Not many will know of Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche who is notable for being the only black man to have died on the Titanic. Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was born …

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The Rodney King Story

Rodney King (born April 9, 1965) was caught by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase on 3 March, 1991. The officers pulled him out of the car and …

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Who was Sarah Baartman?

When 20-year-old Sarah (also spelt Sara) Baartman got on a boat that was to take her from Cape Town to London in 1810, she could not have known that she …

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Video – Dr Chancellor Williams The Destruction of Black Civilization

The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. The book, which was to serve as a reinterpretation of the history of …

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