One of the world's most famous civil rights activists, born Michael King Jr. A Baptist minister, he visited London in December 1964 on his way to Oslo to collect his Nobel Peace Prize. He stayed at the Hilton, spoke at St Pauls Cathedral and visited Parliament. He was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis. His assassin, James Earl Ray, was arrested at Heathrow Airport, trying to reach Rhodesia.
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Martin Luther King
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Martin Luther King - NW6
Joseph Ross sources this quote to a 1967 book by King, 'Where Do We Go From H...
Mosaic House, back - Martin Luther King
The ultimate tragedy is not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence ...
Treatment Rooms 2 - Martin Luther King
Occupy London was a movement for social justice in London and part of the int...
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Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Tory politician. Born at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. Overcame his early boisterous jollity and three times became Prime Minister, each time a coalition caretaker between the giants: Peel and Gladsto...
6 memorials
St Mary Woolnoth
Has a strong historical connection with the abolitionist movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Rev John Newton, a slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist, was rector 1780 – 1807. Carolin...
1 memorial
Luis L. Ramirez
Ramirez's divorced wife's lover was murdered in Texas in 1998. Ramirez was indicted for solicitation of capital murder. In 1999 he was sentenced to death and executed in 2005.
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
1 memorial
John Blanke
Trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He probably came to England as one of the African attendants of Catherine of Aragon in 1501, and is one of the earliest recorded black people in...
2 memorials
Bishop Beilby Porteus
Born York. Bishop of London 1787 - 1809. The first senior church official to support the abolition of slavery. Died at Fulham Palace.
1 memorial
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