history Year 8

• Ipswich Man


  Skeleton of a man found in Ipswich, Suffolk, buried between 1258 and 1300, with direct African ancestry
• John Blanke


  African trumpeter of King Henry VIII, paid less than other white English trumpeters
• Mary Fillis


  Born to a Muslim family in Morocco, moved to Britain in 1583 at age 6, worked as a servant for a merchant
• Ira Aldridge


  Black actor in the 19th century, faced objections but had many supporters, acted in theatres across Britain and Europe
• William Cuffay


  Black political activist, leading London organiser of the Chartists who fought for political rights
• Claudia Jones


  Political activist, creator of the early version of Notting Hill Carnival, founder of the West Indian Gazette in 1958
• Stephen Lawrence


  Killed in a racist attack in 1993, led to the Race Relations Act (2000) preventing racism in the police force
• Doreen Lawrence


  Political activist who campaigned to expose institutional racism in the police after her son Stephen's death
• British Nationality Act of 1948


  Allows Black people part of the British Empire to live in Britain
• Race Relations Act 1965


  Makes racism illegal in public
• Race Relations Act 1968


  Made it illegal to discriminate against people of a different race in housing, employment and healthcare
• Race Relations Act of 1976


  Included indirect discrimination - any practice that disadvantaged a particular racial group as a crime
• Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000


  Made it illegal for the police to be racist
• The Equality Act 2010


  Stopped people from limiting others not only in terms of race, but also gender and disability
• Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963


  The Bristol Bus Company stopped black and Asian people from working on buses, black people protested by refusing to ride, leading to them being allowed to work on the buses
• Michael X and Roy Sawh

  Encouraged the black community to take violent action in self-defense against racists, Michael X jailed for breaking the Racial Discrimination Act of 1965
• Mangrove Nine Trials


  In 1970, black power activists unfairly accused of crimes they did not commit were put on trial and found innocent
• Spaghetti House Siege


  In 1975, three black men started a robbery in a London restaurant to raise money for the black power movement, the robbery failed and the movement became less popular
• Linton Kwesi Johnson


  Poet and reggae musician, inspired many groups of black British writers in the 1970s to write about their own experiences
• Reggae music


  A mix of jazz and calypso, with common lyrics encouraging black people to resist racism and stay connected to their African roots and culture
• Ozwald Boateng


  Has had a vast impact on menswear fashion for almost three decades
• Norman Jay MBE


  British musician, moved from childhood gigs playing ska music to having a hugely popular gig at London's Notting Hill Carnival
• Malorie Blackman


  Born in Clapham, London, to parents from Barbados, has written more than 60 children's books