William Cuffay, a black tailor who lived in London, was one of the leaders and martyrs of the Chartist movement, the first mass political movement of the British working class. His grandfather was an ...

PIONEER: William Cuffay played a key role in the struggle for democracy in Britain A BRITISH historian has called for William Cuffay, the son of a freed slave from St Kitts, who played a key role in ...

A plaque has been unveiled to commemorate the life of a mixed-race tailor who fought tirelessly for workers' rights in the 1800's. William Cuffay was born in 1788 in Chatham as the son of a former ...

PIONEER: William Cuffay played a significant role in British political history. FORGOTTEN BLACK heroes from history are featured in a new book by an anti-racist and trade union activist turned author.

A short history on the influence of William Cuffay, a black tailor, and Irish Catholic workers in the Chartist movement and how the British ruling class used racism to divide an increasingly ...

Lord Morris explores the life of William Cuffay, the son of a slave, and universal suffrage campaigner in 1840s London. From 2010. Show more There are still few black leaders in British political life ...

GEOFFREY BELL looks at the curiously unsupportive stance of British progressives of the Easter Rising BORIS JOHNSON is rarely right. Yet when commenting on demands of some around the Black Lives ...

Six black Britons who had a momentous impact on the UK’s history The toppling of a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston at a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol last weekend has sparked a ...

LAST week just as the racist Boris Johnson became Britain’s latest unelected Tory prime minister, black and BAME Labour and trade union activists met in London to discuss stop some Brexit’s campaigner ...

William Cuffay, worked at the Docks and was a leading figure in a controversial protest against the government for better workers rights.