STORIES THAT CONNECT GENERATIONS
1987—2027
40 years of Black History Month in the UK
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How Black children were wrongly classified as ‘educationally subnormal’, how parents and educators challenged the system, and why its consequences continued long after the terminology changed.
Booker T. Washington helped turn Tuskegee into a major centre of Black education and built networks for business and rural schools. Born enslaved, he became an…
Len Garrison built educational resources that challenged racist assumptions in British classrooms and gave young Black writers a route into print. His work helped establish Black…
The Black Parents Movement grew from a campaign to defend a schoolboy into a network confronting discrimination in education, policing and everyday life. Its members brought…