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African Lives in Northern England calendar, 2021 Features: Africans on Hadrian's Wall William Fitefield of Newcastle, 1794 Mary Ann Macham of North Shields, 1831 Bust of Psyche by Francis Harwood, 1758 Unknown black servant of Captain Robert Fenwick of Northumberland, 1740s Ellen and William Craft at the Newcastle Conference, 1863 Martin Luther King statue, Newcastle University, 1967 Jimmy Durham, Durham Light Infantry, 1885-1910 (see D/DLI collection and The Learning Zone) John Kent, first black policeman, Cumbria, 1837 Olaudah Equiano, anti-slavery campaigner who spoke in the NE, 1792 Samuel Celestine Edwards, Britain's first black editor, Sunderland, 1880s Learie Constantine, cricketer, Trinidad High Commissioner and first black peer, toured with West Indian Cricket team and played against Durham, 1923 Arthur Wharton, football player for Darlington 1885-6 Fisk Jubilee Singers, Newcastle, 1873 Dr Robert Wellesley Cole, graduate of Newcastle Medical School, 1934 Dr Ismael Cummings,worked at Newcastle RVI 1913, and son Ivor, born West Hartlepool welcomed Windrush arrivals, 1948 Osa Omorogbe, playwright and actor, Newcastle, 1944-2014 Ira Aldridge, Shakespearian actor performed Newcastle, 1827-1857 Samuel Coleridge Taylor, conducted first performance of his Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Sunderland, 1898 Paul Robeson, performed Newcastle, 1958 Archie Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe and Ntambo), retired to Tynemouth 2002 after career in African National Congress and trade union movement in South Africa and UK George Coleridge Taylor, studied Philosophy at Durham University, 1932-2016 Charles Duncan O'Neal, local councillor in Sunderland 1905-1910 and practiced medicine in Newcastle

'African Lives in Northern England from Roman times to the 21st Century', African Lives in Northern England Project, edited by Beverley Prevatt Goldstein, published by New Writing North, 2021 Includes leaflet advertising launch of the booklet at the Durham Book Festival, 17 October 2021

'African Lives in Northern England', an educational resource leaflet by African Lives in Northern England Project, 2021