This blog highlights two NARM* role models, John Archer and Paul Stephenson - 2013 marks 100 years since John Archer became London's first African mayor, and 50 years since Paul Stephenson successfully led the Bristol Bus Boycott - and is the focus of BTWSC/African Histories Revisited’s 2013 African British history audio-visual presentations by history consultant Kwaku:
Paul Stephenson & The Bristol Bus Boycott
An audio-visual presentation with primary source material highlighting the fact that there was a bus boycott in Britain in 1963. It's an accessible family-friendly presentation, which will also point out the connections with cricket, the first race relations law, Tony Benn, newly independent Caribbean states, and Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream Speech'.
John Archer & Black Politics
An audio-visual presentation that goes beyond the fact that John Archer became London's first African mayor in 1913. It's an accessible family-friendly presentation, which will show that besides being a councillor, he was a Labour party activist whose successful collaboration with an Asian parliamentary candidate sowed the seeds of the party's Black Sections over half a century earlier. An attendee of the 1900 pan-African conference, he was talking about issues such as reparations, long before it took hold in the 1990s
For more information regarding creating or
delivering an African British civil rights history programme around these 2
NARM role models or other notable African personalities and histories:
Awula Serwah
BTWSC co-ordinator
btwsc@hotmail.com
btwsc@hotmail.com
For event details and bookings: www.narm2013.eventbrite.com.
* The NARM (Naming And Role Model) project was funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, and delivered by Brent-based, pan-London voluntary organisation BTWSC. NARM highlights African British male role models from 1907 to 2007, in various fields of endeavour, including Academia, the Arts, Business, Civil Rights, Education, Faith, Law, the Police Service, Politics, Publishing, the Sciences, and the Community & Voluntary Sector. Its resources come in a book and DVD. The term African is used to describe all people of African descent, whether they come from the continent of Africa or its diaspora.
* The NARM (Naming And Role Model) project was funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, and delivered by Brent-based, pan-London voluntary organisation BTWSC. NARM highlights African British male role models from 1907 to 2007, in various fields of endeavour, including Academia, the Arts, Business, Civil Rights, Education, Faith, Law, the Police Service, Politics, Publishing, the Sciences, and the Community & Voluntary Sector. Its resources come in a book and DVD. The term African is used to describe all people of African descent, whether they come from the continent of Africa or its diaspora.
