Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 anti racist Walker in the early 1900s

Walker in the early 1900s to the rise of Shea Moisture today

Britain was 'the Mother Country'

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Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 anti racist Walker in the early 1900sVery little attention has been given to Black British, West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet Black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and Manchester, and many volunteered as civilian defence workers, such as air raid wardens, fire fighters, stretcher bearers, first aid workers and mobile canteen personnel. Many helped unite people when their