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My history hero Michelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin

Photograph of Pauli Murray

Pauli Murray The Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

Edward Tull-Warnock, who qualified as one of the first black dentists in Britain

The forgotten contributions of black Edwardians in Britain

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

The brutal murder of Emmett Till was just one of thousands of racially motivated lynchings in the American South, but it proved to be a pivotal moment in the civil rights revolution. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Emmett Till: the murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement

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Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

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Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of “Ashley’s sack” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880. Although Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 and it was abolished in the USA after the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865, the transatlantic trade in African slaves continued. The main market for the slaves was Brazil, where slavery was not abolished until 1888. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown.. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Black British history Slavery's painful legacy

American Republican politician, Robert Smalls (1839 - 1915), born a slave in South Carolina, he was later elected to serve as a Congressman for his home state. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Black History Month The slave who stole a ship and sailed to freedom

The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

Black British history Black Britannia

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The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black British history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

My history hero Paterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho

Image of black people protesting. (GettyImages_1153422488)

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Black British history A timeline of key moments