Posted on 26 September 2010. Tags: Black Londoners, GLC, Grenada, League of Coloured Peoples, London county council, Lord Pitt, Politics

Lord David Pitt ,Baron Pitt of Hampstead, now deceased was the longest serving Black Parliamentarian, having been granted a life peerage in 1975. Born in Grenada, he came to Britain in 1933 to study medicine at Edinburgh University. His achievements in his two chosen careers of medicine and politics were considerable. In 1943, while ...
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Posted on 20 September 2009. Tags: Africa, Athlete, Athletics, Birchfield Harriers, Black goalkeepers, Caribbean, Fante, Ghanaian, Goalkeepers, Grenada, Preston North End, Prince Hassan Cup, Soccer. Football

Arthur Wharton was the world's first Black Professional Footballer.Arthur was born to parents who were both mixed race. His father was half Grenadian and half Scottish, and ...
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