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WW2 'Brown Babies':

A little-known part of British 20th Century history - BBC World Service podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi4Ll7VGXJk

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Deb's dad was based in Sparkford, includes short interview 1min13s.

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Deb Prior does not know her birth father’s identity but has found her birth mother’s family.

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Stories of Britain's 'Brown Babies' of WW2: Ann Evans

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BBC Radio 4 - Woman’s Hour, Choreographer and dancer Aditi Mangaldas, The children fathered by black GIs in the UK

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Prof Bland is researching mixed-race children of black GIs in the UK - like Deborah Prior

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The birth of the new royal baby has been welcomed around the world, but C4 reporter Jane Dodge has been hearing the stories of two other mixed-race babies, whose childhoods were a world apart. One grew up during the second world war, the other in the sixties. They had one thing in common: both were ostracised by members of their own families because of the colour of their skin.

Some viewers may find some of the language in this report upsetting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QsaNqEG55g

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Inspired by the little-known story of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black American GIs and white British women in WW2. Black GIs, in the segregated American army, were forbidden to marry their white girl-friends.

American GIs were based at Airfield sites in Somerset.

One of the 3 children's homes 50% of the mixed heritage children were sent to, was in Somerset.

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Over 8 million people of color fought the same fight and made the same sacrifices in the Second World War—yet their stories have been written out of history. Learn the true stories of their heroism in Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color, narrated by Idris Elba, premiering Monday, June 3 at 9/8c on National Geographic and Monday, 27th May at 8pm on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic TV

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Using money raised by National Lottery players,

The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports

projects that connect people and communities

with the UK’s heritage. A Place Called Home is made

possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Thanks to National Lottery players, within A Place called Home, we have been able to put on this locality event A WW2-era hidden story in Somerset. So much more than an exhibition, this event helps explore people & place through testimonials, stories, photos & items.

https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/

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An overview of our 2-week long WW2-era Hidden Story in Somerset

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"Wide recreational reading expands pupils’ knowledge about the world and about language, as well as their understanding of subject-specific academic and technical vocabulary."

Cunningham, A. E., & Stanovich, K. E. (1998). What Reading Does for the Mind. American Educator, 22, 8–17; Mol and Bus (2011).

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Includes music and short film from the era.

The Timeline of African American Music has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. The project is also supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Albert Ammons

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"The jook was in full play when we walked in. The piano was throbbing like a stringed drum and the couples slow-dragging about the floor were urging the player on to new lows..."

Boogie-woogie, primarily a piano-based style, is one of the most rhythmically intense forms of blues music. Its evolution began in the late 1800s among pianists in the rough-and-tumble city taverns and rural juke joints, and it spread to the traveling vaudeville shows. It was a feature in the barrelhouses in the logging, sawmill, turpentine, levee, and railroad camps throughout the South. In Texas the piano style was known as "fast western." The basic boogie-woogie rhythm, an outgrowth of ragtime and rural blues, is said to have been inspired by the rhythmic clacking of steam locomotives throughout the Deep South.

Context and History

Boogie-woogie musicians traveled the barrelhouse circuit providing entertainment and music for dancing. Many began their professional careers performing on traveling medicine shows, Black vaudeville circuits. In the North, they performed at house parties at which an admission fee was charged and food and drink were sold in order for the tenant to be able to pay the rent. Boogie-Woogie musicians later found regular employment in clubs.

The pianist Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport made the earliest recordings that can be described as boogie-woogie during the early 1920s, while the first hit record in the genre was Clarence "Pinetop" Smith's "Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie" (1928). Boogie-woogie lost popularity during the Depression Era but came back into style at the end of the 1930s, with pianists such as Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson. It peaked from then into the 1940s when it was adapted by the swing bands (Bennie Moten and Count Basie) as well as rhythm & blues (Louis Jordan and Joe Liggins) and early rock 'n' roll artists, such as Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. Later in the 20th century, New Orleans "piano professors" such as "Professor Longhair" (Roy Byrd), Allen Toussaint and "Dr. John" (Mac Rebennak) also performed it in a recognizable style that came to be called "New Orleans Piano," incorporating Caribbean rhythms, what "Jelly Roll" Morton called "the Latin tinge" as can be heard in the left-hand (bass) rhythm of "Tipitina."

Musical Features/Performance Style

Boogie-Woogie is characterized by a repetitive eight-beat-to-the-bar "walking" piano bass line (eighth notes in 4/4 time ) in which the left hand emphasizes each note of the chord. The right hand is on top and improvises a syncopated melody in counter rhythm. The combination creates a continuous drive. "The Fives," a tune published as sheet music in 1922, contains all the modern boogie-woogie left-hand combinations. Albert Ammons and Meade "Lux" Lewis said that many pianists in the 1920s played it just before leaving to take a break.

Lyrics

"Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" by Clarence "Pine Top" Smith

Now, when I tell you to hold yourself, don't you move a peg.

And when I tell you to get it, I want you to boogie woogie!

Other Notable Performers
An outstanding dual-piano boogie-woogie performance by Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson, "The Boogie Woogie Man," can be seen beginning at about 4 minutes and 50 seconds in the 1944 film "The Boogie Woogie Dream." It also stars vocalist Lena Horne and pianist Teddy Wilson and his jazz band. Most of the music in the film is blues.

In the late 1930s, Kansas City jazz bands led by Bennie Moten and Count Basie began incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style into big-band jazz to produce a sound that later became known as swing jazz. "Western Swing" (or "Texas Swing") was an adaptation by white bands, such as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, with a lasting influence in Texas country music and also in the bluegrass music of Bill Monroe.

Boogie-woogie rhythms also were adapted to guitar styles. Among the important of these guitarists were Chicago-based Blind Blake in the 1920s, and rural blues singer Robert Johnson in the 1930s. Just after World War II, John Lee Hooker enjoyed a best-selling recording with his composition "Boogie Chillen" (1949). During the height of the rock era, American and British blues-rock bands such as Canned Heat, Savoy Brown, and Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen revived and updated the style.

Jeff Todd Titon, Ph.D.

is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Brown University, where he directed the Ph.D. program in ethnomusicology. From 1969-71 he was the guitarist in the Lazy Bill Lucas Blues Band, including an appearance at the 1971 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. Among his nine published books is Early Downhome Blues (1977; 2nd ed.1994) which won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Prize and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Editor of Ethnomusicology from 1990-95, in 2015 he was made an honorary life member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the same year that his field recordings were chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress, which now also houses his professional papers. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, and in 2020 he received their Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award. His most recent book is Toward a Sound Ecology (2020).

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Bibliography

1. Page, Christopher. Boogie Woogie Stomp: Albert Ammons and His Music. Northeast Ohio Jazz Society. 1997.

2. Oliver, Paul. The Story of the Blues. Northeastern University Press. 1998.

The Timeline of African American Music by Portia K. Maultsby, Ph.D. presents the remarkable diversity of African American music, revealing the unique characteristics of each genre and style, from the earliest folk traditions to present-day popular music.

Learn More

Carnegie Hall's interactive Timeline of African American Music is dedicated to the loving memory of the late soprano and recitalistJessye Norman.

© 2008 Richard Termine

Special thanks to Dr. Portia K. Maultsby and to the Advisory Scholars for their commitment and thought-provoking contributions to this resource.

The Timeline of African American Music has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. The project is also supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Carnegie Hall's history of African American Music. Learn more about how boogie-woogie music evolved from the 1800s to the present day.

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All cultures celebrate the birth of a baby in different ways. When Tariq's mum has a baby boy, Tariq brings in some dates to celebrate the new baby in his family his teacher has an idea... the whole class celebrates and as the children talk, at circle time, they each in turn tell how their families welcomed a new child into the world.

Available in English with...28 dual language editions, incluuding

Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bugarian, Chinese, simplified Mandarin, Crootian, Farsi, French, German, Gurjurati, Hindi, Italian....

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This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs, in this segregated army, were forbidden to marry their white girl-friends. Nearly half of the children were given up to children's homes but few were adopted, thought 'too hard to place'. There has been minimal study of these children and the difficulties they faced, such as racism in a (then) very white Britain, lack of family or a clear identity. The book will present the stories of over fifty of these children, their stories contextualised in terms of government policy and attitudes of the time. Accessibly written, with stories both heart-breaking and uplifting, the book is illustrated throughout with photographs.

Whilst the exhibition was on for a short time in Castle Cary, it lives on at the online Mixed Museum;

https://mixedmuseum.org.uk/brown-babies/.

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Britain’s Brown Babies

The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War

By: Lucy Bland

Narrated by: Katherine Margaret

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

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This book reveals the little-known history of the mixed-race children born to Black American servicemen and White British women during the Second World War. Of the three million American soldiers stationed in Britain in 1942-45, about 240,000 were African American. Their relationships with British women resulted in the birth of an estimated 2,000 children, which the African American press named "brown babies"; the British called them "half-castes".

The American army was racially segregated, and Black GIs were forbidden to marry their pregnant White girlfriends. Up to half of these mothers, faced with the stigma of illegitimacy and a mixed-race child, gave up their children for adoption. Often, they ended up in children's homes, sometimes followed by fostering and occasionally adoption, but adoption societies frequently would not take on "colored" children, who were thought "too hard to place".

Based on extensive interviews, Britain's Brown Babies presents the stories of more than 50 of these children against the backdrop of shifting government policy and attitudes of the time. Lucy Bland brings to light the struggles they faced, including racism in a then very White Britain, and a lack of family or a clear identity. While some of the accounts of early childhood are heartbreaking, there are also many uplifting narratives of kids finding their American fathers and gaining a sense of self and of heritage.

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Check out this great listen on Audible.com. This book reveals the little-known history of the mixed-race children born to Black American servicemen and White British women during the Second World War. Of the three million American soldiers stationed in Britain in 1942-45, about 240,000 were Africa...

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The Mixed Museum is delighted to present this special exhibition curated by Professor Lucy Bland, based on her book Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’, the stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War, with a few additions. Scroll across the 9 panels and click on each one to learn more.

Includes an audio of full whole exhibition and interviews, alongside photos and background detail to set the context.

https://mixedmuseum.org.uk/brown-babies/

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A research trip to Taunton: Revisiting the records of Somerset’s WW2 ‘brown babies’

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A research trip to Taunton: Revisiting the records of Somerset’s WW2 ‘brown babies’

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14 November 2025

https://mixedmuseum.org.uk/news/a-research-trip-to-taunton-revisiting-the-records-of-somersets-brown-babies/

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A research trip to Taunton: Revisiting the records of Somerset's WW2 'brown babies'

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A visit to Somerset Archives sheds new light on Britain's WW2 'brown babies' - and improves public access to their records.

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The lost history of Somerset’s wartime mixed-race babies | ITV News

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The relatively untold story of mixed-race babies born to white mothers and black American GI fathers has been on display in Bridgwater. | ITV News West Country

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SW Heritage Trust shares a record of a little-known national story which played out especially strongly in the South West.

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SW Heritage Trust shares a record of a little-known national story which played out especially strongly in the South West.

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Black History Month: Somerset & Devon’s ‘Brown Babies’

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During and shortly after the war a number of children were born to white English mothers and black US Army fathers.

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A compendium of memories will appeal to all who grew up in this post-war decade, whether in town or country, wealth or poverty. With chapters on games and hobbies, holidays, music and fashion, the wonderful memories and delightful illustrations will bring back this decade of childhood, and jog memories about all aspects of life.

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Boxes to Borrow_A4 with QR code GLADE  LoansMarch2026

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Boxes to borrow: WW2-era Hidden Story - one of the collections available on loan 

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Boxes to borrow: WW2-era Hidden Story - one of the collections available on loan 

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Browse this box and other heritage-themed boxes at

https://aplacecalledhome.glade.org/boxes/

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Gathering and curating collections of memorable items, heritage and cultural objects, books, photos, arts and crafts, homeware is a feature of our CONNECT-CHALLENGE-CHANGE approach. Encouraging people of all ages to start new conversations, to be curious and to learn about each other.

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Books available to borrow from Castle Cary Library & other community libraries

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Books available to borrow from Castle Cary Library & other community libraries

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BOOK REVIEW by a Cary Library volunteer:

"Somerset in World War Two " is written for older children but very well, and lots of pictures, and I read it from cover to cover in one go and found it interesting and enjoyable.Lots of quotes from people who were children

Weblink to find out more about Castle Cary community library:- https://www.somerset.gov.uk/locations/castle-cary-community-library/

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Just Exhibition opening times WW2 era social history update 20.2.2024

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Hawk Editions; 2nd edition (31 Oct. 1996)

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In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy aircraft. One member of the 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an award he would never receive. The nation’s highest decoration was not given to black soldiers in World War II.

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Publisher: Bristol Books CIC (2 Sept. 2019)

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Steve Stacey rose from kicking a ball in the gaslit streets of post-war Bristol to running out in the top flight of English football. Often the only black face in the team he was the first African-American to grace the professional English game.

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Start of school holidays...short, drop-in activity was offered

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Start of school holidays...short, drop-in activity was offered

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Publisher: the History Press September 2010

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Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and Manchester, and many volunteered as civilian defence workers, such as air-raid wardens, fire-fighters, stretcher-bearers, first-aid workers and mobile canteen personnel. Many helped unite people when their communities faced devastation. Black children were evacuated and entertainers risked death when they took to the stage during air raids. Despite some evidence of racism, black people contributed to the war effort where they could.

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Schools can request to borrow books from the School Library Service

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Schools can request to borrow books from the School Library Service

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More information on this service can be found at:- https://www.supportservicesforeducation.co.uk/Page/9229

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Shades of Black - a celebration of our children

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Shades of Black - a celebration of our children

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A collection of full-colour photos with read-aloud text which celebrates the beauty and diversity of African-American children.

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A visual journey through Black British history for younger readers by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga. The essential starting place for anyone who wants to learn about Black British History. David Olusoga’s thought provoking text charts the forgotten histories of Black people in Britain from Roman times right through to the present day.
From Roman Africans guarding Hadrian’s Wall, to an African trumpeter in the court of Henry the Eighth, Black Georgians fighting for the abolition of slavery, Black soldiers fighting for Britain in the First World War, Windrush and right up today. These are the stories that brought us all together in this country.

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**Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Illustrated and Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards, 2021
** Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2020
A short, essential introduction to Black British history for readers of 12+ by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga.
When did Africans first come to Britain?
Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings?
Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution?
These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian’s Wall right up to the present day.
This children's version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History is illustrated with maps, photos and portraits.

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Did you know that the first Britons were Black? Or that some of the Roman soldiers who invaded and ruled Britain were Black, too? Join this fascinating journey through the ages to meet those first Britons, as well as the Black Tudors, Georgians and Victorians who existed in every walk of life here. The incredible journey through time is brought to life through Atinuke's fascinating storytelling and illustrated scenes, detailed maps, and timelines created by illustrator Kingsley Nebechi.

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Publisher: The History Press September 2022

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In this young readers’ edition of Black Poppies, Stephen Bourne takes us on a hero-filled journey. Explore the many and extraordinary ways in which Black people helped Britain fight the First World War, on the battlefield and at home. After meeting Stephen’s Aunty Esther, we hear the story of Walter Tull, who led soldiers in some of history’s bloodiest battles and died in the fighting just weeks before the conflict would end. Then there is Alhaji Grunshi, an African who fired the first shot of the whole war. Back at home, Black men and women helped by entertaining the people, making materials like bullets and uniforms, and beginning the long fight for equality and the freedom to celebrate being Black and British with pride.

A short, compelling history of Black Britons during the First World War, for readers aged 8 to 12

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A gentle exploration of the adoption experience, from first meetings to creating new family traditions.

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Took place Tues 19 March - free to attend, pre-booking was essential

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Took place Tues 19 March - free to attend, pre-booking was essential

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To enquire about booking similar, contact Dave Chapple, Bridgwater’s Red Shadow Sound System.

Hear DC’s Popular Music History Sessions 4th Thursday of the Month at Bridgwater Arts Centre, 7pm for 7.30

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TAKEN PLACE; Tuesday 19 March 2.00 - 4.00; An afternoon of WW2-era swing, boogie and rhythm and blues.  Pre-booking was needed 

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TAKEN PLACE; Tuesday 19 March 2.00 - 4.00; An afternoon of WW2-era swing, boogie and rhythm and blues.  Pre-booking was needed 

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TAKEN PLACE; Thursday 21 March and Monday 25 March; 4.00 - 5.00 Ideas and curriculum planning teacher workshops. Pre-booking was preferred

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TAKEN PLACE; Thursday 21 March and Monday 25 March; 4.00 - 5.00 Ideas and curriculum planning teacher workshops. Pre-booking was preferred

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Don't Get Around Much Anymore - The Ink Spots. This weblink navigates away from this webspace

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Don't Get Around Much Anymore - The Ink Spots. This weblink navigates away from this webspace

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1MIOVEe2bU

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“They treated us royally”? Black Americans in Britain during WW2 from Imperial war Museum

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“They treated us royally”? Black Americans in Britain during WW2 from Imperial war Museum

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https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/they-treated-us-royally-the-experiences-of-black-americans-in-britain-during-the-second-world-war

Before the first American troops arrived in 1942, the black population of Britain – around 8,000 to 10,000 people – was largely congregated in urban port areas.

The British government was apprehensive about how British society might react to a US. segregated foreign force arriving on their shores...

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Before the first American troops arrived in 1942, the black population of Britain - around 8,000 to 10,000 people - was largely congregated in urban port areas. American troops, on the other hand, would be stationed all over the UK, in particular in rural areas in support of the US Army Air Forces, and in the build-up to D-Day. The British government was apprehensive about how British society might react to a segregated foreign force arriving on their shores. While ministers rejected the idea of leading 'our own people to adopt as their own the American social attitude to the American negro,' the greatest preoccupation was ensuring that good relations could be maintained with a crucial ally. Indeed, to reinforce this point, the cabinet concluded in 1942 that to ensure least friction, ' it was desirable that the people of this country should avoid becoming too friendly with coloured troops'.

Black troops were, though, often warmly received by British people. he people here have a racial tolerance which gives them a social lever ,' described Ottley in an article for an African American journal, They are inclined to accept a man for his personal worth. Thus the Negro has social equality here in more ways than theory. Negro Digest. He continues: ' To put it in the language of the Negro soldier, I'm treated so a man don't know he's colored until he looks in the mirror. The fact is, the British do draw racial distinctions, but not within the doors of the British Isles - at least not until the arrival of the white American soldiers. This is not to say the British are without racial prejudice. They do have it in a subtle form. But, in the main, it is confined to colonial and military officials who have spent their lives administering affairs in the colored colonies and derive their incomes from them.

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"They treated us royally"? The experiences of black Americans in Britain during the Second World War

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During the Second World War, about 1.5 million American servicemen and women visited British shores. Around 150,000 of the US troops who came to Britain were black. Their arrival was heralded as a 'friendly invasion', but also highlighted a number of cultural differences between the two nations, including an unfriendly American one: the institutional racism of the United States.

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Publisher: Square Peg Books (7 July 2022)

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Natalie and Naomi Evans, founders of anti-racist advocacy and platform Everyday Racism, explore the complexities of mixed-race identities - from the discrimination endured by the 1.2 million mixed people in Britain and millions more elsewhere, to the privileges it can afford. Sharing personal experiences of growing up in Britain to illuminate the nuances of racial identity, the book also weaves in:
- Interviews with people from mixed backgrounds and in mixed relationships
- Research to dispel common myths and stereotypes
- Practical advice for mixed-race families and friendships