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Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as one of the nine protestors, known as the Mangrove Nine, arrested and tried on charges that included conspiracy to incite a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London.

Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt,MBE (21 September 1901 – 1 July 1971) is probably best remembered for being one of the world’s best cricketers. But beyond the field, Learie was a persistent campaigner for racial equality and justice, writing books, speaking on the radio and even in parliament. Who was this self-styled ‘Black Englishman’?

Lubaina Himid, CBE, RA (born 1954) is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities. Himid was one of the first artists involved in the UK's Black Art movement in the 1980s and continues to create activist art which is shown in galleries in Britain, as well as worldwide.

Janet Olufunmilayo Adegoke will go down in history, not only as a former mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham, but also as the first Black woman in London to be made a Mayor.

Althea McNish FSCD (15 May 1924 – 16 April 2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation. Born in Trinidad, McNish moved to Britain in the 1950s. She was associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) in the 1960s, participating in CAM's exhibitions and seminars and helping to promote Caribbean arts to a British public.

Sislin Fay Allen (20 March 1938-5 July 2021), known as Fay Allen, was a British and Jamaican police officer who was the first black woman police constable in the United Kingdom, serving in the Metropolitan Police in London from 1968 to 1972. She also worked for the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Allen was born in Jamaica, and moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 or 1962. She lived in Thornton Heath, Croydon. She qualified as a state registered nurse and

Beryl Agatha Gilroy (née Answick), 30 August 1924 – 4 April 2001 was a Guyanese educator, novelist, ethno-psychotherapist, and poet. The Guardian described her as "one of Britain's most significant post-war Caribbean migrants." She emigrated to London in 1951 as part of the Windrush generation to attend the University of London, then spend decades teaching, writing, and improving education. She worked primarily with Black women and children as a psychotherapist and her childr

Cleopatra Mary Palmer, MBE (née Sylvestre) born 19 April 1945), known professionally as Cleo Sylvestre, is an English actress in film, stage and television. She was the first black woman ever to play a leading role at the National Theatre in London. She was brought up in Euston, north London by her mother, Laureen Sylvestre (née Goodare), a cabaret artist at the Shim Sham Club in Wardour Street, who was born in Yorkshire in 1911.

Chief Kofoworola Abeni Pratt Hon. FRCN (née Scott, 1915 – 18 June 1992) was a Nigerian nurse who was one of the first notable black nurses to work in Britain's National Health Service. She subsequently became vice-president of the International Council of Nurses and the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria, working in the Federal Ministry of Health.