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Black Plaque Project

Categories: Race Issues

Black Plaque Project

An extension of the Nubian Jak Community Trust plaque scheme. It recognises black people / people of colour who were prominent in British history. The plaques are temporary, but it is planned to convert them to the usual blue ones.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Black Plaque Project

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Fela Kuti - SE10

Kuti is a Trinity Laban alumnus. This plaque was first placed outside this bl...

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Winifred Atwell - black plaque

Winifred Atwell, 1914 - 1983, first black person to have a number one hit in ...

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Other Subjects

Paul Michael Dunne

Paul Michael Dunne

19-year old murder victim. Stabbed through the heart during a fight in Hoxton Street. On the SarfLondonDunc Flickr we found some posts by people who knew those involved.  This one from Chica001UK ...

Person, Race Issues, Tragedy

1 memorial
Frederick Horniman

Frederick Horniman

Tea merchant, benefactor and politician. Born Frederick John Horniman at Bridgwater, Somerset. He inherited his father's tea business, which by 1891 was described as the biggest tea firm in the wor...

Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, India, Sri Lanka

3 memorials
Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy

Born at the Whittington Hospital to Jamaican parents and and grew up in Twyford House on the Blackstock council estate. Best known for her novels 'Small Island' and 'The Long Song'. She wrote from ...

Person, Literature, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
John Blanke

John Blanke

Trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He probably came to England as one of the African attendants of Catherine of Aragon in 1501, and is one of the earliest recorded black people in...

Person, Music / songs, Race Issues, Africa

2 memorials
John Richard Archer

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