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Black History

Sky HISTORY explores the historical, political and social experiences of Black people throughout the ages.

Soldiers of the 369th (15th N.Y.), awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. Left to right. Front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins. Back Row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Storms, Pvt. Joe William

'The Harlem Hellfighters': WW1's African-American regiment
Slave Ship by JWM Turner and portrait of Olaudah Equiano by Daniel Orme

Olaudah Equiano and the Zong Massacre
A painting of an African man by Dutch painter Jan Mostaert

The story of Black History Month
A portrait of Toussaint Louverture

Toussaint Louverture and the birth of Haiti
A portrait head bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (called Caracalla).

The history of black Britain: Roman Africans
A statue of Charles Robert Darwin at the Natural History Museum in London.

John Edmonstone – the man who taught Darwin
A photograph showing Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela: The prison years
Photographs of Althea Gibson

The woman who smashed the race barrier at Wimbledon