HSAP BRITISH BLACK HISTORY DIGEST No. 22 – JUNE 2013 Published by History & Social Action Publications. Edited by Sean Creighton. 4 June 2013 Articles, reviews and notes are always welcome for inclusion in future issues of the Digest and should be emailed to sean.creighton1947@btinternet.com Blog: http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com Publications website: https://sites.google.com/site/historysocialaction Please copy to others you think might be interested. Black History Digest 20 placed on web by Tayo Aluko http://cmr.tayoalukoandfriends.com/links/BBHD%2020%20April%202013.pdf. Feedback: Keep up the good work! Contents: Diary; News & Information; Historic Notes; Paul Robeson News; War and Freedom Project; Launch of British Black History Research Unit; Black Victorian Sailors – Part 1 (by Jeffery Green) Following a friend looking at Martin Hoyle’s William Cuffay, I have been asked to recommend simply written books for children and busy adults on British Black & Asian and on working class history which can be promoted. Please let me have your suggestions?
DIARY Wednesday, 5 June. 6-8pm. BBM Songs of Empowerment & Socio-Political Awareness Quiz ‘Many of us can look to the US, particularly and deal with socio-political issues? BBM/BMC during its civil rights period, and point to several founder and quiz master Kwaku will show that songs that highlight empowerment and sociothey are there, and not just within reggae. political issues. The same can be done with Westminster Reference Library, 35 St. Martin's reggae music from Jamaica, particularly from Street, Leicester Square, London, WC2. Free: the roots & culture strand of reggae. But what book at http://bbmm2013empowerquizabout Britain - where are the songs from the eorg.eventbrite.co.uk. Click to submit your BBM British Black Music (BBM) canon that empower Songs of Empowerment & Socio-Political list. Friday 7 June. 6pm. Red Tails. Showing of George Lucas’s film on the Tuskegee Airmen, who battled Nazis in the air and racism on the ground. Join new Harrow Mayor Cllr Nana Asante and her Mayoress Ms Awula Serwah. Flash Musicals Theatre, Methuen Road, Edgware, London, HA8. Organised by British Black Music. Saturday 8 June. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Promotion at Croydon Heritage Festival Street Stall Event. I will be running a stall to promote the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network, and to sell my publications and second hand history books at the Whitgift Foundation Heritage Festival day event in Market St in Croydon Town Centre. Saturday 8 June. Doors open 7pm. Talk starts 7.30pm. The legacy of the Moors and their contribution to the development of European culture, etc. Talk by Robin Walker. The legacy has been ‘Moor’ conjures up an image of barbarous and largely ignored, hidden, or denied. Western fanatical individuals or a group of people who scholarship has generally obscured their threatened Christianity and even civilisation significance. Those who would expose the truth itself. In the opinion of some Western scholars, of Europe’s indebtedness to the Moors have been the medieval followers of Mohammad are often overlooked. There can be no doubt that the regarded as being little more than gallant explorations of the new world, the scientific, soldiers. The Moors occupied Spain from the 8th social, political, and even public health and century AD to 15th century AD, and Spain and urban development would not have happened Portugal became the centres of Moorish/Muslim the way they did without long standing, civilisation. Cities like Granada and Seville were constant, and fundamental contact with Moorish places where Moorish culture was the norm, and influence. To the general public, the word students from other European cities attended 1