One of the world's most famous civil rights activists, born Michael King Jr. A Baptist minister, he visited London in December 1964 on his way to Oslo to collect his Nobel Peace Prize. He stayed at the Hilton, spoke at St Pauls Cathedral and visited Parliament. He was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis. His assassin, James Earl Ray, was arrested at Heathrow Airport, trying to reach Rhodesia.
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Martin Luther King
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Martin Luther King - NW6
Joseph Ross sources this quote to a 1967 book by King, 'Where Do We Go From H...
Mosaic House, back - Martin Luther King
The ultimate tragedy is not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence ...
Treatment Rooms 2 - Martin Luther King
Occupy London was a movement for social justice in London and part of the int...
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Horatio, Lord Nelson
Born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. Naval commander who became a national hero as a result of his victories in the battle of the Nile (1798) and the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). He was mortally wounded...
18 memorials
Tobias Rustat
Courtier to King Charles II and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge. He was an investor in, and Assistant (what we'd call Director) of, the Royal African Company, an English mercantile comp...
2 memorials
Lord Teignmouth, John Shore
Anti-slavery campaigner. Â Born St James Street, Piccadilly but brought up in Romford. Â 1769 went to work in Bengal where he was one of the first to learn a number of the local languages. Â Like many...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Indian Sub-continent
1 memorial
Rev. John Venn
Clergyman and anti-slavery campaigner. Born Clapham, son of the vicar at the time.  1792, under John Thornton's will, appointed rector of Clapham, a post he held until his death and where he was a...
2 memorials
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...
2 memorials
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