Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in BritainHistorical study of the African and West Indian Black in the UK from 1594 to 1971 - covers forced labour as domestic workers, legal status, racial discrimination, race relations, racial conflict, racial policy, White attitudes, negro associations, immigration, social integration, employment (incl. As performers, writers, physicians, nurses, etc.), etc. Illustrations and references. |
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Page 151
No hospital would openly admit that there was a ban against black nurses but , said The Keys , " after talking to numbers of hospital matrons , secretaries , and governors we learned that a coloured girl has a poor chance of securing a ...
No hospital would openly admit that there was a ban against black nurses but , said The Keys , " after talking to numbers of hospital matrons , secretaries , and governors we learned that a coloured girl has a poor chance of securing a ...
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The Trade Union , the Police and the Shipowners appear to co - operate smoothly in barring coloured Colonial Seamen from signing on ships in Cardiff . The legislative history of this policy has been traced chronologically , and due ...
The Trade Union , the Police and the Shipowners appear to co - operate smoothly in barring coloured Colonial Seamen from signing on ships in Cardiff . The legislative history of this policy has been traced chronologically , and due ...
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A Jamaican , Lawrence Phillpotts , who lived in Nottingham for fourteen years after his demobilization from the Royal Air Force , said at the time : " For over a year an anti - coloured feeling has been growing up in the St. Ann's Well ...
A Jamaican , Lawrence Phillpotts , who lived in Nottingham for fourteen years after his demobilization from the Royal Air Force , said at the time : " For over a year an anti - coloured feeling has been growing up in the St. Ann's Well ...
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Contents
Part | 3 |
Courtesans and Blackamoors | 5 |
Bread and Liberty in Old England | 12 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in Britain |
| Author | Edward Scobie |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Johnson Publishing Company, 1972 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0874850568, 9780874850567 |
| Length | 316 pages |
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