A very elusive organisation as all we can find about them is that they are committed to promoting African-British history and literature.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Universal Negro Improvement Association
This building was the headquarters of the Universal Negro Improvement Associa...
Other Subjects
London Riots - 2011
On the 4th August 2011, Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black resident of Tottenham, North London, was shot and killed by the police. They stated that officers were attempting to arrest him on suspicion...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (d.1915)
Politician. Born Essex. Grandson of the first baronet. Governor of South Australia. Died in a cottage at Cromer, rather than in his nearby family seat, Colne House, because at the time, WW1, that ...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Australia
0 memorials
Ruth First
South African freedom fighter. Born Johannesburg. Married Slovo in 1949; the writer Gillian Slovo is their daughter. Killed by a parcel bomb addressed to her in Mozambique where she was living in e...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Nationalism, Race Issues, Africa, South Africa
1 memorial
Olive Morris
Activist and community leader. Born in St Catherine, Jamaica, and moved to Britain at the age of nine. She was a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in...
Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Caribbean Islands
2 memorials
St Mary Woolnoth
Has a strong historical connection with the abolitionist movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Rev John Newton, a slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist, was rector 1780 – 1807. Carolin...
1 memorial
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Dogs killed in medical experiments in 1902
232 dogs died in 1902 as a result of medical experiments. Wikipedia gives: "In 1875 there were around 300 experiments on animals in the UK, a figure that had risen to 19,084 in 1903 when the brown...
2 memorials
Queen Mary's steps
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
A nearby information board gives a good history of the Embankment: The first person to suggest a river embankment was Sir Christopher Wr...
4 subjects commemorated
British Film Institute
In 1996 the BFI erected 126 plaques across Britain to commemorate the centenary of cinema. See the pdf.
16 memorials
D. T. Griffiths
Town Clerk in Southwark Council in 1936 - 47, at least.
1 memorial
Plaistow Road WW2 air attack
E15, Plaistow Road, 163
Our colleague Andrew Behan points out the following errors on this plaque: Fitzgerald's first name should have only one 'n'; Short was a ...
War served, Civilian war dead | WW2
9 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
9 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
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