Resources
General
Women
Education
Africa
Caribbean
Books
GENERAL
Facebook and general site for Speaking and Standing Firm:
Facebook Group
www.speakandstand.wordpress.com
Details and trailer of ‘A Charmed Life’, a tribute to Eddie Martin Noble who served in the RAF during WW2:www.charmedlifecampaign.wordpress.com
Article on Eddie Noble and The Charmed Life Campaign
Guardian article on Jamaican ex-serviceman Eddie Martin Noble
Article on Remembrance Sunday and the black war contribution
www.voice-online.co.uk
Article on Windrush Day Campaign for a public holiday
Bank Holiday Celebrate Windrush Generation
Petition for Windrush Day
Charmed Life Campaign Petition
General article on Black contribution to World Wars
Military Feature
Liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a “whites only” victory
BBC News Article
Black Soldiers are targeted in Iraq
www.voice-online.co.uk
Commonwealth soldiers form a trade union
BBC News Article
Johnson Beharry the first black solider to receive a Victoria Cross
www.100greatblackbritons.com -Johnson Beharry
Lance Sergeant Dale Alanzo McCallum killed in Afghanistan August 2010
www.mod.uk
WOMEN
Mary Seacole
www.100greatblackbritons.com – Mary Seacole
Connie Marks
www.throughmyeyes.org.uk
Recognition for African American women during WW2
www.america.gov
Ex-servicewomen discriminated on the ground of race and sex discrimination by the army
www.guardian.co.uk
EDUCATION
‘War to Windrush’ Teachers Pack to support the Exhibition (June 2008 to April 2010)
www.iwm.org.uk
Journey of Change Project developed by the Imperial War Museum in supporting children of Caribbean heritage to learn about the Caribbean contribution during WW1and WW2
Journey of Change
Oral history of war veterans which features a number of Caribbean veterans
www.throughmyeyes.org.uk
Walter Tull the first black army officer in WW1
www.100greatblackbritons.com – Walter Tull
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
History of Walter Tull – Racism in Football 1909
Oxfam resource on world conflicts for young people
www.oxfam.org.uk
Black Loyalists, 18th Century African soldiers fighting for the British in the US Revolutionary War
Wikipedia.org – Black Loyalist
www.blackloyalist.com
www.blackloyalist.info
Tony Warner organisers film screening and walks on the black war contribution
www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk
S. I. Martin writer and historian delivers walks and lectures on black seamen and the black contribution to the armed forces
www.voice-online.co.uk
AFRICA
War memorial in Reims to the African soldiers
Wikipedia.org – Monument to the Black Army of Reims
Contribution of African soldiers
www.mgtrust.org
Africans in World War II – a documentary by Barima Adu-Asamoa
Barima Adu-Asamoa
African Soldiers in the French Army
African Soldiers in World War One
Africa’s forgotten war time heroes in Burma
www.bbc.co.uk/news
Germany’s battles in Africa during WW1
www.news24.com
The remains of South Africa soldiers from WW1 returns back home
WWI Black Soldiers Return
Records and information of the King’s African Rifles
Kings African Rifles
http://latasabah.blogspot.com
Royal West African Frontier Force and West African Infantry and World War II
Royal West African Frontier Force
wikipedia.org – West Arica
wikipedia.org – West Africa Infantry Brigade
CARIBBEAN
Caribbean contribution to WW1
www.mgtrust.org
Tracing military records of West Indians
www.iwm.org.uk
Veterans from the Caribbean who served in the RAF during WW2. The site was founded by the late Cy Grant, a Haringey resident.
www.caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com
Kurt Barling from the BBC interviewing a family back in 2009 who discovered a grave of their ancestor from St Lucia buried in Seaford in Sussex who was part of The West Indies Regiment during WW1
West Indies Regiment
Article covering the British West Indies Regiment and the Mutiny at Taranto after the war finished in Jamaica
Jamaica Gleaner
commonwealth.sas.ac.uk
George Blackman, from Jamaica, who was interviewed in 2002 at the age of 107 about his experiences fighting in the First World War
George Blackman
Eugent Clarke, the oldest known World War I veteran in Jamaica who met the Queen at the age of 108 back in 2002
Eugent Clarke
Records on Caribbean personnel
www.movinghere.org.uk
‘A white man’s war? World War I and the West Indies’
www.bbc.co.uk
BOOKS
A. Haywood and F.A.S Clarke (1964) The History of the Royal West African
Frontier Force Gale & Polden
Andrea Levy (2004) Small Island Headline
Angelina Osborne and Arthur Torrington (2005) We served: the untold story of the West Indian contributions to World II Krik Krak Publishing
Arthur E. Barbeau & Florence Henri (1996) The Unknown Soldiers- African America Troops in World War I Da Capo Press
Brian Dyde (1998) The Empty Sleeve: The Story of the West India Regiments of the British Army Hansib
Christopher Somerville (1998) Our War – How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Cy Grant (2007) A Member of the Royal Air Force of Indeterrminate Race Woodfield Publishing
Eddie Martin Noble (1984), A Jamaican Airman New Beacon Books
Erica Myers-Davis (2009) Under One Flag Get Publishing
Glenford Howe (2002) Race, War and Nationalism – A Social History of West Indians in the First World War Ian Randle Publishers
Humphrey Metzgen and John Graham (2007) Caribbean Wars Untold – A Salute to the British West Indies University of West Indies Press
J. Todd Moye (2010) Freedom Flyers – The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II OUP
Jane Robinson (2006) Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea Robinson Publishing
Kirk Savage (1999) Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves – Race, War and Monuments in Nineteenth-Century America Princetown University Press
Marika Sherwood with Martin Spafford (1999) Whose Freedom were Africans, Caribbeans and Indians Fighting for in World II? Savannah Press/BASA
R. N. Buckley (1979) Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments 1795-1815 Yale University Press
Robert N. Murray (1994) Lest We Forget: Experiences of World War II Westindian Ex-Service Personnel Hansib Books
Sam King (1998) Climbing UpThe Rough Side of The Mountain Upfront Publishing
