Tag: Windrush generation
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Discover how Asquith Xavier challenged whites-only hiring at London’s Euston Station in 1966, becoming the first Black train guard there despite death threats and establishing a crucial civil rights precedent in British employment.
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Sir Geoff Palmer, Scotland’s first Black professor, makes history by being inducted into the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle for his academic contributions and advocacy for social justice.
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