1. HOW MANY INDIAN VOLUNTEERS FOUGHT FOR THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918)?

A: 1,500,000

B: 500,000

ANSWER:

A: 1,500,000

We rarely see images of Asian soldiers in textbooks on the First World War – is this right?

2. WHEN DOES THE FIRST PIECE OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE WHICH PROVES A

BLACK PERSON WAS LIVING IN LONDON DATE FROM?

A: 1707B: 1507

ANSWER:

B: 1507

Both Henry VII and Henry VIII employed a Black trumpeter in Tudor Times

3. SINCE WHICH PERIOD IN HISTORY HAVE BLACK PEOPLE LIVED IN BRITAIN?

A: Tudor TimesB: Roman Times

ANSWER:

B: Roman Times

The Romans conquered Africa and would have made Africans fight in their armies that went on to conquer Britain.

In the past people treated black people differently.

Mary Seacole

Bessie Coleman

THE WOMEN OF THE CRIMEAN WAR

• Florence Nightingale is famous being a nurse to British soldiers during the Crimean War.

• She greatly improved conditions in the hospitals making it less likely that they would catch infections.

• But was she the only person who helped?

Mary Seacole

• Born in Jamaica.• Her mother taught

her lots about medicine.

• She was an excellent nurse.

• She heard that troops were dying in the Crimean War

• She also heard that conditions in the hospitals were terrible.

• Mary travelled to London and offered to help.

• The British Army rejected her offer of help.

• Mary used her own money to travel to the Crimea.

• Once there she went to see Florence Nightingale.

• Mary used more of her own money to pay for medical treatment for the soldiers.

• She went onto the battlefield to treat wounded soldiers from both sides.

• She returned to London famous for the great work she had done but very, very poor.

Who is it?• In the 1936 Olympics he won 4 gold medals in the

100m, 200m, the long jump and the relay. • Hitler did not want to salute him• He was not invited to the White House to shake

hands with the president and when he attended an awards ceremony in a hotel he had to go up in the service elevator and was not allowed to use the front door.

• He campaigned to improve the situation for black people around the world

James Cleveland Owen- Jesse Owen

Who is it?

• He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.

• He was active in the movement for civil rights and racial equality.

• He participated in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott and many other peaceful demonstrations that protested the unfair treatment of African-Americans.

• He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. • He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in

Memphis, Tennessee

Martin Luther King Jr

Who is it?

• She was born in a very poor home in America. • She had a very tough childhood but managed to

get a job at her local radio station, then became a day-time TV presenter.

• Eventually she launched her own show. • She was the world’s only Black billionaire.• She has also given more money to charity than

any other Black person in the history of America.

Oprah Winfrey

Who is it?

• He was born and raised in Birmingham, England, in 1958.

• He has written poems, stories and plays.

• Talking Turkeys, J is for Jamaica.

Benjamin Zephaniah

Who is it?

• His father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas.

• He was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961.

• He became President on November 4, 2008

Barack Hussein Obama 44th President of the United States

Who is it?

• When he was 9 months old, his dad sawed off a golf club to make it very short so he could strike the ball into the net.

• When he was 18 months old he began going to the golf course with Dad.

• In the year 2000, when he was 24 years old, he won four major golf tournaments: the U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur and the British Open and British Amateur

• The first African-American/Asian-American

Tiger Woods

Who is it?

• She is a famous actress.• She was the voice Cappy in the film

Robots• She was the first African-American to

win the Best Actress award at the Oscars.

Halle Berry

Who is it?

• He’s black• He’s British• He’s a sportsman• He is the first black person in his

sport• He is the first black person to win the

big trophy in his sport

Lewis Hamilton

Who is your inspiration?

We recognise lots of talented people who have a growth mind-

set.

Challenge stereotypes

Ask questions such as:• How do you know that?

Put the other point of view.• Did you know that the children in Sierra Leone

go to school and have lessons in English and Maths?