Black history: Britain and race
The History Hour
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Black History Month in the UK
We're marking black history month here in britain by looking this week at the experience of black people in the u k. During world war too, tens of thousands of black us were stationed in the uk. Some developed relationships with local british women who went on to have children. Babs gibson ward was one of the so called brown babies. She talked to fahan hyder about growing up as a mixed race child in post war britain. Still to come in this podcast, how even black elite sportsmen were not protected from racism. And from a century ago, the life of a sir male sailor based in bittain.
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