Sources and methodology Research process:
While researching for our project the omittance of these women from British culture and curriculum became increasingly clear to us. We decided we wanted to create a questionnaire in order to highlight this lack of knowledge. In our questionnaire we asked members of the public and friends and family to honestly answer whether they had heard of the women in our study. While the results were shocking, with people knowing only a handful of the more modern figures, they were not surprising. This lack of knowledge was the driving force behind our project as we feel these remarkable women deserve to have their stories heard. Alongside our chosen figures we have chosen to display the results of our questionnaire to further highlight the lack of recognition these women have received.
General sources:
Black Cultural Archive UK Black History Month The British Library Bryan, Beverley, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe, 'Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain' (London: Virago Books, 1985) Peter Fryer,'Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britian', (University of Alberta, 1984) David Olusoga, 'Black and British: A Forgotten History', (Pan Macmillan, 2016) Akala, 'Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire', (Hachette UK, 2018)
Sources for each individual
Phillis Wheatley
Mary Prince
Mary Seacole
Ellen Craft
Alice Kinloch
Amy Asshwood Garvey
PBS, Amy Ashwood Jones, Cecily, ‘Garvey, Amy Ashwood’, The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Martin, Tony, Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist, and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1: or A Tale of Two Amies (Dover, Massachusetts: Majority Press, 2007)
Kathleen Wrasama
Una Marson
Claudia Jones
Connie Mark
Pearl Connor
‘Mogotsi, Pearl Cynthia Connor’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Perry, Kennetta Hammond, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) Sherwood, Marika, Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1999)
Dame Jocelyn Barrow
Gerlin Bean
Althea Jones-Lecointe
Johnson, Chris W., ‘Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille’, Gender & History, 26 (2014), 661-687 Bunce, R. E. R., and Paul Field, ‘Obi B. Egbuna, .L.R. James and the Birth of Black Power in Britain: Black Radicalism in Britain 1967-72’, Twentieth Century British History, 22 (2011), 391-414
Barbara Beese
Leila Hassan Howe
Beverley Bryan
Baroness Doreen Lawrence
Frances Ezzrecco
Dawson, Ashley, ‘Migration, Gender, and Identity in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners’, Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2007) pp. 27-48 Pilkington, Edward, ‘Out of the Ashes’, Beyond the Mother Country: West Indians and the Notting Hill White Riots (London: I.B.Tauris & Co, 1988) pp. 139-52 Sherwood, Marika, Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1999) Perry, Kennetta Hammond, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Catherine Ross
Merle Amory
Olive Morris
The Fawcett Society, 'Black History Month: The power of Olive Morris' 'We Continue to remember Olive Morris- a ROC 2.0 reboot' 'Black women who have struggled to make our efforts possible': Olive Morris and the Legacy of Black Power in Manchester' Black Women Radicals: 'Olive Morris' 'Do You Remember Olive Morris? On Vimeo' Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson, 'She was a pioneer black female activist who found for women's rights in Britain but died at 27' Amie Tsang, 'Overlooked No More: How Olive Morris Fought for Black Women's Rights in Britian' Bryan, Beverley, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe, Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain (London: Virago Books, 1985) Olive Morris, 'A Sisters Visit to China', in SpeakOut!, Black Women's Group Brixton
Diane Abbott
Robin Bunce, Samara Linton, 'How Diane Abbott fought racism- and her own party- to become Britain's first black female MP' Diane Abbott, 'A Race Against Time', 10. 07, 2008 Speaker Politics, 'Black History of Parliament' Jessica Elgot, 'Diane Abbott more abused than any other female MP during election', 05. 11. 2017 Rebecca McQuillan, 'Interview: Diane Abbott on racism, the future for Labour and the personal toll that social media abuse takes', 19. 10. 2020 Bell Ribeiro- Addy, 'Diane Abbott MP- 33 years as a Titan of British Politics', 18. 11. 2020 Lucy Ward, 'The Guardian Profile: Diane Abbott', 16. 03. 1999 Aamna Mohdin, 'Meghan could help black women shed harmful 'strong' trope, says Diane Abbott', 09. 03. 2021
Baroness Valerie Amos
Peter Wilby, 'Interview: Valerie Amos: The coolest of cool to handle Soas's hot potato', 09. 02. 2016 'Baroness Valerie Amos appointed as Master of University College', 02. 08. 2019 Aftab Ali, 'Valerie Amos 'astounded' to be the first black woman to lead a UK university', 20. 04. 2016 100 Great Black Britons, 'Baroness Valerie Amos' Jonathan Wynne- Jones 'Baroness Amos: I was taken aback when I found out I was the first black female head of a university', 19. 07. 2015 Jackie Storer, 'Interview: Baroness Amos', 22. 06. 2004 United Nations Foundations, 'Our Board: Valerie Amos'
Yvonne Field
Yvette Williams MBE
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
Baroness Oona King
Oona King Website Baroness King of Bow, Parliamentary Carreer Jasper Jackson, 'Oona King to become YouTube's global director of diversity', 21. 07. 2016 Roz Lewis, 'Interview, Oona King: My family values', 19. 04. 2013 Alex Smith, '"This is about bringing communities and ideas together": The Oona King interview", 25. 05. 2010 Patrick Barkham, 'MP accuses Galloway backers of anti-semitism', 12. 04. 2005 100 Great Black Britons, Oona King Homa Khaleeli, 'Oona King, Tessa Jowell, Angela Eagle and others on sexism in Westminster', 02. 03. 2013
Dawn Butler
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, '"Ghana is Better That This": Lady Phyll on the Urgent Need to Protect Ghana's LGBTQIA+ Citizens from Homophobia', 03. 03. 2021 Twitter: Phyll Opoko-Gyimah (Lady Phyll) Alice Newbold, '"Queer People of Colour are Resilient and Resillience is Power": Lady Phyll on the UK Black Pride Movement', 11. 06. 2020 UK Black Pride Website Jayson Mansaray, 'Lady Phyll on 15 Years of UK Black Pride: 'Something Here is Unstoppable'', 27. 06. 2020 Michael Segalov, 'Interview, Lady Phyll: 'When Gloria Gaynor played, I danced as if I never would again', 09. 01. 2021 Matt Broomfield, 'Black lesbian activist Phyll Opoku- Gyimah turns down MBE in protest at LGBT persecution by 'colonial regimes'', 05. 01. 2016
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Alison FFlood, 'Reni Eddo-Lodge becomes first black British author to top UK book charts', 16. 07. 2020 Alison Flood, 'Authors called David more likely to be on bestseller lists than BAME writers', 08. 11. 2016 Charlie Binkhurst Cuff, 'Author Reni Eddo- Lodge on white feminism, activism and her new book', 27. 05. 2017 Alison Flood, 'Reni Eddo- Lodge wins Jhalak prize for British writers of colour', 15. 03. 2018 The Guardian, Reni Eddo- Lodge profile You Must Create, 'Reni Eddo-Lodge' Reni Eddo- Lodge Website About Race, with Reni Eddo Lodge
Lavinya Stennett
The Black Curriculum Website Lola Christina Alao, 'Meet Lavinya Stennett, The Founder of The Black Curriculum', 18. 02. 2021 Sally Weale, 'Black British history 'missing from school curricula in England', 08. 01. 2020 Olive Pometsey, 'Meet Lavinya Stennett, the 23-year-old teaching the UK Black history', 06. 10. 2020 Twitter: The Black Curriculum Helen Lock, 'Meet the 23-year-old Londoner Leading the Fight to Teach Black British History in Schools', 24. 07. 2020 Lucy Kauser, 'SOAS alumna: Lavinya Stennett and The Black Curriculum', 29. 07. 2020 Future Leaders: Lavinya Stennett interview
Temi Mwale