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Because Dick Turpin was the British and Commonwealth middleweight #boxing champion and desegregated British boxing. youtube.com/watch?v=iKmpEseG…
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My granddad celebrated his 100th b'day at the @golden_anchor He couldn't drink the Guinness by then but still liked to pop in see Lana regularly. He passed last year just before his 102nd b'day. I'll raise a glass to Vin Foster when they reopen. #SavingBritainsPubs #BlackBusiness
But "what of the Black woman"? Some landlords specifically recruited Black barmaids. @CarolineBressey found 1880s n'paper ads for bars in Birmingham and Stockton that requested only ‘a coloured lady' should apply. [The lady in the pic working at a bar in Paris, 1899]
Frederick Ziegler was landlord of the Cock and Lion on Wigmore St in 1808. Born in Suriname he was one of the hundreds of Black men who served in the Royal Navy. S/O @SIMartin 's museumcrush.org/celebrating-… The pub still stands toast Mr Ziegler when it reopens #SavingBritainsPubs
London-born boxer Jem Wharton (1813-1856), ran a pubs in Manchester + Liverpool (maybe the York Hotel) after he retired. Around 1861, Charles Dickens would write about the "jovial black landlord" and his Black punters he met on a pub crawl in Liverpool. Portrait in @NPGLondon
I don’t know who was the earliest Black publican in England but prize-fighter Bill Richmond (1763-1829) was certainly the most famous, he used his winnings to buy the Horse and Dolphin near Leicester Sq. The plaque was installed at his local on Panton St.🥊
Glad Coach and Horses + @golden_anchor is getting some attention. A quick thread on some pre-Windrush Black publicans. I do love this sketch of the Duke of Clarence tho c.1823... anyone know where it might be? @Greenwich_Hosp or @RHChelsea? #SavingBritainsPubs
#BlackBusiness 🍻
does @googledoodle have a thing for revolutionaries? Today its Marsha P Johnson!! What would she have to say about Google?🤷🏿♀️ But this is from the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries' manifesto - the org she founded w Sylvia Rivera #AllBlackLivesMatter #PowerToThePeople
ALT We want a revolutionary peoples’ government, where transvestites, street people, women, homosexuals, puerto ricans, indians, and all oppressed people are free, and not fucked over by this government who treat us like the scum of the earth and kills us off like flies, one by one, and throws us into jail to rot. This government who spends millions of dollars to go to the moon, and lets the poor Americans starve to death. POWER TO THE PEOPLE S. T. A. R. --- from the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries' manifesto, 1970
What would anti-capitalist, Marxist, Black feminist Olive Morris have to say about @GoogleDoodles marking her birthday? I dunno. But she did say this...
#OliveMorrisDay @rememberolive
if anyone spots a book I've borrowed off 'em... forgive me, I beg. Also, got 5 books - but Decolonizing the Caribbean Record is a whoppa. @AbiraHussein @AbenaKJohn @hjmishmael @DeTelemaque @EtienneJoseph @thoughtful74 [share 6 books & tag 6 people]
