Black History Month. Still no monument of the leader of London Chartism in 1848,William Cuffay
William Cuffay, (1788-1870) was the leader of London Chartism in 1848, and the press of the time referred to the ‘black man and his party’.
Yet despite efforts there is still nothing to mark the role that this black Londoner played in the Year of Revolutions,1848, in central London.
Red Saunders Hidden from History photomontage remains the best virtual memorial*
*I’m in the picture wearing a false beard that was glued on to my actual beard, hair by hair
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