Black presence in the 20th century
Here is a taster of the 'Walter Tull - An Officer, a Footballer and a Gentleman' material that I produced for Northamptonshire Black History Association, which should be available to buy soon: 'Early Life' (1mb) and 'Army Exploits' (1.5mb)
- Interview (20 minutes) on BBC Radio London, November 2007, with Phil Vasili, Dan Lyndon and students from Henry Compton School about Walter Tull
- Walter Tull a short film by Reece Lawlor
- The Walter Tull Webquest (401kb) by Sean Gubbins
- Black Footballers (1.1mb) This is a fantastic workpack written by Mark Russell (produced for EAL students) full of resources about the early Black Footballers, Arthur Wharton and Walter Tull
- An introduction to immigration in London (490kb) Emily Thomas's presentation is the start of a short unit of work on multicultural London
- John
Archer the second Black mayor in Britain, Battersea, 1913
- Black
Britons webquest This is a webquest that I wrote that asks pupils to make
a film about the 3 individuals that made the biggest impact on British history
- Black and Asian soldiers in WW1 (640kb) a lesson from Emily Thomas
- Black
and Asian soldiers in WW1 webquest This is a webquest that I wrote to guide
pupils through the contribution that was made by Black and Asian soldiers in
the First World War
- Black
and Ethnic Minority Experience website with video archive of interviews
of people living in Wolverhampton
- Felix Eboue The first Black Governor of Guadeloupe
- Claudia
Jones The 'mother of the
Notting Hill Carnival' from the BBC website
- Connections
- Asian politicians and suffragettes this page has information on pioneers
such as Dadabhai Naoroji and Sophia Duleep Singh
- Interviews
from the Northampton Black History Project Archives
- Dr Allan Minns the first Black Mayor in Britain, Thetford, 1904
- Observer article about the African Second World War Veterans that are now living in poverty
- Sophia
Duleep Singh from the Northampton Black History project The Indian
Suffragette campaigner
- Senegalese
soldiers in WW1 (1.21mb) A starter activity from Donald Cumming using
a strong visual image
- Shapurji Saklatvala the first Asian Communist/Labour MP (for Battersea North), 1922
- SS
Windrush interviews
from the BBC website
- We
were there website from the Ministry of Defence about the contribution made
by Black and Asian people in 20th century warfare
- WWII
evacuee starter (1.96mb) Another starter image from Donald Cumming
- Young
Hackney Voices stories and music from the Moving
Here website
- Whose Freedom? Activities Index page (41kb) for 'Whose Freedom? A study of the experiences and significance of African, Caribbean and Indian men and women in the British armed forces in the Second World War' By Marika Sherwood and Martin Spafford
- Slides for the starter activity (6.6mb)This ppoint links with the
- Remembering(259 kb) document about the racist murder of a Jamaican Serviceman in London just after the war
- Reasons (25kb)This worksheet links with the following ppoints and is about the reasons why people from Africa and the Caribbean joined the Armed forces
- Reasons A (3.93mb)
- Reasons B (907kb)
- Reasons C (3.09mb)
- Reasons D (3.57mb)
- Experiences (6.81)This ppoint considers how racism in the 1940s compares to today.
- Experiences extra sources (19.5kb) Additional sources to compliment the Experience ppoint
- Significance (20kb)This worksheet looks at the significance of the war for the further history of the British Empire
- Significance extra sources (283kb) Additional sources to compliment the Significance worksheets
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