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Previous Events  in               2007

African and Indian troops did most of the fighting against the Japanese in WW2 but their stories have been erased by British historians. On this day:

• Biyi Bandele author of Burma Boy will relate the stories he recorded from Veterans from East and West Africa.
• Somali and Jamaican war veterans interviewed by local youth
• Film on African and Asian troops in Burma
• Film on how and where African-American troops were lynched in England between 1939-45

Film: Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters

Museum in Docklands,

West India Quay (Docklands Light Railway)

Free entry: first come,first served

www.museumindocklands.org.uk  

America is one of the richest countries in the world mostly because it benefited
from hundreds of years of forced labour. This film details how Africans resisted by open rebelions, running away, the underground railroad, poisoning slavemasters, burning buildings,learning to read, political lobbying and total defiance in the face of death.It also reveals the extraordinary lengths that white Americans went to to suppress African people by terrorism, torture, murder,brainwashing, rape and unjust laws which still have an effect to this day

Previous Events 2007

Sunday 18 November 3-5.15pm

"The colonialists have a habit of telling us that when they arrived they put us into history. You are well aware that it's the contrary.When they arrived that took us out of our own history. Liberation for us is to take back our destiny and our history". Amilcar Cabral

Previous 100BMOL events from 2006

Above: June 16 1976 thousands of secondary students from Soweto demonstrate against Apartheid education. They are shot dead in their hundreds but continue to fight back by throwing stones and bottles. The uprising results in a huge increase of black youth joining Mandela's ANC to train as fighters and overthrow the racist regime

Sat 16th December 2-5.30pm. 2006

1831: THE JAMAICANS STRIKE BACK!

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Blacks Britannica

The trade in slaves was 'abolished' in 1807 but the British did not get around to abolishing slavery itself until 1834. Due to the European biased teaching of history the word abolitionist conjures up images of white men in wigs giving speeches in parliament. The true abolitionists were the millions of African people who fought back using any means necessary over the centuries of the Parliamentary endorsed genocide.

Over the next 12 months we will be telling their

stories starting with...

Black Veterans Speak out

100 Black Men Event at Imperial War Museum

Britain would not have been unable to win World War 2 without the sacrifice of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Teenagers from the Somali Youth Forum will interview Alan Wilmott (Jamaican) and Somaili veterans of  World War 2 who were teenagers whenthey joined up.

We will also screen films about the Black Panther Tank Regiment, the all African-American  fighter squadrons and black spitfire Pilots. 

The event takes place at the Imperial War Museum,

Lambeth Road, London SE1. Tube Lambeth North.

Adm Free, First come First served. Full programme below.

For more info e-mail etf @100bmol.org.uk

11.30am Film featuring Ulric Cross, Connie Marks, Billy Strachan, Learie Constantine

talking about the black war effort in WW2

12.00 London Calling. Film about Noor Inayat Khan, the muslim Princess and RAF secret agent who gave her life for Britain

12.30 break

1.30 Interviews start

Film on African-American units of WW2

4.30 close

There will also be a room where younger children can make an art collage about their feelings on World War 2.

People are also welcome to bring photos, letters or anything they may have about WW2 which can be used in an exhbition about our contributions

(left) Princess Noor Inayat Khan (George Cross winner) in RAF uniform (right) West Indians gather at the BBC to broadcast home.

The West Indian Ex Servicemens Association has a list of speakers and a small library their number is 0207 627 0702

For an excellent and comprehensive schools resource on What African, Caribbean and Asian people did during WW2 contact Marika@oare.fsnet.co.uk

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