The Hamlyn Keith-Falconer Lecture A Black Survivor

  • 3 years ago
Hamlyn Keith-Falconer was an activist and black rights campaigner. He came to Britain in 1955 and began working for the rights of black people almost immediately delivering a campaigning newspaper based at the Round House in London. He was co/founder of the Harambee Housing Association in London and went on to head the Harambee’s Midlands Regional Housing Association based in Wolverhampton. He was one of the founders of Pan-Africanism in the UK and founded many black organisations such as CCMA, NORSACA, Blue Mountain Carers and others including local football teams like the Black Lions. Upon his death in 2013 his sons set up the Hamlyn Keith-Falconer Lecture and every year, in Black History month for which he campaigned one of his sons delivers a lecture about black history.

Recommended