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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Frederick Douglass
Social reformer, writer and statesman. Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, probably in his grandmother's shack in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery and became an agent of the ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands, USA
2 memorials
Tim Campbell, MBE
Timothy Anthony Campbell MBE is a businessman best known as the winner of the first series of the British version of The Apprentice. Awarded the MBE for Enterprise Culture in the 2012 New Year’s Ho...
1 memorial
African National Congress
London headquarters of the African National Congress, 1978 - 1994 were at 28 Penton Street.
1 memorial
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
The first Lord Brougham. Born in Edinburgh. Died in Cannes, France, where, despite the plaque in Grafton Street, he apparently spent much of his last 30 years, indeed he seems to have effectively c...
2 memorials
Eric Huntley
Unusually, in this husband and wife team there is more information available about Jessica than about Eric. See Jessica's page for their work together and for a photo of them when younger. This i...
1 memorial
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