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    Ten black history events that should be taught to every pupil

    Black History Month is a chance to introduce forgotten historical episodes into the curriculum, from the British black panthers to the Bristol bus boycott‘It isn’t a tick-box’: young BLM activists on Black History Month in UK schools
    by Lucy Campbell Oct 11, 2020 5 minutes
    London police search a young man in Talbot Road, Notting Hill during race riots in September 1958. Photograph: Knoote/Getty Images

    Black History Month presents an opportunity to highlight historical episodes and figures not given due (or any) prominence in UK schools.

    Here are 10 examples of black history I was not taught in school.

    1. West Indian soldiers in the first world war

    The contributions of the 15,204 men who served in the British West Indies Regiment have largely been forgotten in the UK’s remembrance of the great war.

    From the Bahamas to British Guiana, men across the West Indian colonies heeded the call for volunteers from the “mother country” in 1915 at their own expense and peril.

    They weren’t allowed to fight alongside white soldiers and faced racism from their comrades and enemy soldiers alike. From the trenches of the western front to the theatres of the Middle East and Africa, they carried

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