Erection date: 17/11/2011
This building was the headquarters of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) from 1935 - 1940. The UNIA is an international Pan African movement founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
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UNIA
W14, Beaumont Crescent, 2
Garvey's office was in this building. The plaques are either side of the entrance.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica. It campaigned against lynching, denial o...
Pan-African nationalist leader. Born Marcus Mosiah Garvey in St Ann's Bay, Ja...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
A very elusive organisation as all we can find about them is that they are co...
Founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica. It campaigned against lynching, denial o...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
The plaque is very badly eroded and partly illegible, maybe the result of hav...
Our thanks to Paul Baderman for the address and the press pack.
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In a 2012 European Trade Union Institute publication concerning firefighters' working conditions we found: "The motto "save or die trying...
March 2016: Google Street View has this whole house fogged out. Someone ever so important must live there.
According to Wikipedia St James' Day is either 25 July, 30 April or 13 May, depending on which calendar you use.
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