African National Congress
London headquarters of the African National Congress, 1978 - 1994 were at 28 Penton Street.
Group, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Africa
Subjects
Ira Aldridge
Actor. Born Ira Frederick Aldridge in New York City (his date of birth is approximate). He started his acting career with the African Company in the early 1820s, but faced with racial discriminatio...
Person, Race Issues, Theatre, Poland, USA
1 memorial
Altab Ali
25-year-old Bengali murdered in Adler Street, junction Whitechapel High Street, in a racist attack by three teenage boys. Altab Ali was on his way home to Wapping from a small factory just off Bric...
1 memorial
Anti-Slavery Society
First founded in Britain in 1823 as the 'Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions'. When slavery was abolished in British dominions the Society w...
Group, Race Issues, Social Welfare
1 memorial
John Richard Archer
Political activist. Born at 3 Blake Street, Liverpool. He travelled the world as a seaman, living in Canada and the USA, before eventually settling in Battersea, where he opened a photographic stud...
Person, Photography, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Canada, USA
2 memorials
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Sir John W. Simpson
Died: 30/3/1933, 87 years ago
Person, Architecture, Scotland
1 memorial
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