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American aviator Bessie Coleman pictured in c1922, around the time she made her debut flight. Her astonishing aerial stunts would earn her the monikers ‘Queen Bess’ and ‘Brave Bessie’ (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream

Illustration by Rose Wilkinson

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William Douglas: infamous bushranger, prize-fighter and reader of skulls. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1780 portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and talented composer, violinist and swordsman (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Chevalier de Saint-Georges: how the mixed-race musical maestro Joseph Bologne became a star in 18th-century France

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‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroMichelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Pauli Murray

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Pauli MurrayThe Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

Edward Tull-Warnock, who qualified as one of the first black dentists in Britain

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The forgotten contributions of black Edwardians in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

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Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

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Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

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Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

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Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880. Although Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 and it was abolished in the USA after the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865, the transatlantic trade in African slaves continued. The main market for the slaves was Brazil, where slavery was not abolished until 1888. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown.. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Black British historySlavery's painful legacy

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Black History MonthThe slave who stole a ship and sailed to freedom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Black British historyBlack Britannia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black British history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

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My history heroPaterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of black people protesting. (GettyImages_1153422488)

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Black British historyA timeline of key moments

Sara Forbes Bonetta (seated besides her husband James Davies was brought to England in the late 1840s by a Navy captain. Presented to Queen Victoria, she impressed the monarch so much that Victoria became her godmother

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Black History MonthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, plus 7 articles you should read

Hakim Adi

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Hakim Adi“There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Around 200,000 freed slaves, like this soldier, joined the Union military in the Civil Wa

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The Emancipation ProclamationYour guide to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation

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African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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St Hadrian of CanterburyMedieval African theologian. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

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Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

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BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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African-American philanthropy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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