Erection date: 17/11/2011
This building was the headquarters of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) from 1935 - 1940. The UNIA is an international Pan African movement founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
Narrative Eye
UNIA
W14, Beaumont Crescent, 2
Garvey's office was in this building. The plaques are either side of the entrance.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica. It campaigned against lynching, denial o...
Pan-African nationalist leader. Born Marcus Mosiah Garvey in St Ann's Bay, Ja...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
A very elusive organisation as all we can find about them is that they are co...
Founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica. It campaigned against lynching, denial o...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
The plaque is very badly eroded and partly illegible, maybe the result of hav...
City of Westminster Terence Donovan, 1936 - 1996, photographer, worked here, 1978 - 1996. Olympus Cameras 1999
The texts on the plaques either side of the Whittaker plaque is largely lost. They were painted and only a few shreds remain. The font lo...
The buildings of this museum were occupied until 1933 by the Royal Hospital School. Founded in 1694 for the sons of seamen of the Royal ...
Jack Cornwell V.C. 1900 - 1916 Adjacent to this site stood Clyde Cottage birthplace of John Travers Cornwell the youngest recipient of t...
Edward McKnight Kauffer 1890 - 1954, Marion Dorn, 1896 - 1964, designers, lived here in flats 139/141. English Heritage
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