Gay Liberation Front
The 1970s saw the emergence of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, the rise of feminism and the beginnings of a ‘gay scene’ in the city, although much effort went into more practical matters like the ...
Hannah Sturge
There are currently few available images of the powerful women who worked for local women's antislavery societies. This image of Hannah Sturge (wife of Joseph Sturge) with one of her daughters seated ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (Part 2)
(cont..)Newspaper account of Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Birmingham and its local antislavery societies.
Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (part 1)
Newspaper account of Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Birmingham and its local antislavery societies.
Ida B. Wells in Birmingham
Submitted by Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church
Ida B Wells (1861-1930), well-known in the USA, where a great deal has been written about her contribution to civil rights, is not well known ...
Indian Workers' Association GB [IMG]
Indian Workers’ Association GB (Birmingham Branch) MS 2141 IWA
The IWA combined Marxist politics with a concern for the plight of Asians and other immigrants in Britain and had a close, if sometimes ...
J.A.James
John Angell James was an important local 'congregationalist' minister based at Carrs Lane church, Birmingham. He was a longstanding member of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society.
Image taken from ...
J.W.C Pennington
In 1850, Pennington visited the 'Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves'.
Dr Pennington was himself a slave until the age of twenty in the United States of America. He went ...
Joseph Sturge with family and John Bright.
Image: nineteenth century photo of Joseph Sturge, taken from 'Sophia Sturge, A Memoir'(1940).
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Malcolm in Marshall Street (1965)
[Submitted by Paul Quigley]
Malcolm X was known around the world as ‘the angriest Black man in America’ and an inspirational speaker on the injustices of America’s treatment of Black people. On a ...
Moses Roper
Moses Roper appears to have been in Birmingham around 1835. 'A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery' was published the same year, giving information about his life ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I joined Indian Workers Association in late sixties and was a trade union shop steward.
I am very proud of the Indian Workers Association because of the help and advice that I received from the comrades. ...
Oswald Mosley
Image: Oswald Mosley at the Town Hall. (Birmingham Newspaper Cuttings Political History 1930-1932)
It is important to remember that at the time people like Rev Cohen were making speeches against the ...
Peter Stanford, 'From Bondage To Liberty' [1]
Portrait of Joseph Sturge
Image of Joseph Sturge, leader of the 'Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society'. 'Timmins' Birmingham Portraits, Large Folio (part 2), SE6.
Click on web link below for more biographical information of Joseph ...
Portrait of Rev. Cohen
A portrait of Cohen, minister of Singer's Hill 1913-1949.
ResearchingThe West Indies.
Birmingham and The West Indies.
Birmingham's antislavery activists held a special interest in the West Indies. The reader's list for this travel narrative includes here both Joseph Sturge and other ...
Rev Peter Stanford.
Stanford was born into slavery in America in 1860. He came to Birmingham in 1887 as a preacher in Hope Street Baptist Church, Highgate. This possibly makes him Birmingham's first black minister. He also ...