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Ira Aldridge
African American stage actor who featured in plays on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Black Lion Tamers
The first Black lion tamer appeared in the Hull and East Yorkshire area as early as 1860.
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Brandesburton Pygmies (Part 1)
Article written by Arthur G Credland and taken from the East Yorkshire Historian.
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Brandesburton Pygmies (Part 2)
The story of six Africans coaxed from the rain forests of the eastern Congo and paraded on stage.
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Deep are the Roots
Cutting-edge play about racial tension which came to Hull’s New Theatre in April 1950.
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Entertainers at the Tivoli Theatre, Hull
A range of performers of African descent performed at Hull's Tivoli Theatre between 1912 and 1954.
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Pablo Fanque
Circus owner, equestrian, tight rope walker and acrobat who performed in Hull in 1846.
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Fisk Jubilee Singers (Part 1)
Singers who performed their 'spirituals' to a crowded Hope Street Congregational Church.
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Fisk Jubilee Singers (Part 2)
Singers who performed their 'spirituals' to a crowded Hope Street Congregational Church.
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Roland Gift
Singer and actor, known for his work in the Fine Young Cannibals who grew up in Hull.
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Adelaide Hall
Jazz singer and entertainer who toured Britain after WW2, performing in Hull in 1948.
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In Dahomey
The first full-length musical written and played by an entirely Black cast, shown in Hull in 1904.
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Jimi Hendrix
Guitarist, singer and songwriter who played Hull's Skyline Ballroom in March 1968.
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Master Juba
African American dancer who performed on both sides of the Atlantic in the nineteenth century.
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Albert May
Martin Hale's account of his grandfather Albert, previously known as 'Black Joe'.
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Paul Robeson
Singer and activist who visited Hull and East Yorkshire on several occasions between 1931 and 1960.
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Seaside Resorts
(Part 1) African stories in Scarborough, which became Britain’s first seaside resort in the 1730s.
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Seaside Resorts
(Part 2) African stories in Bridlington and Filey, which became popular holiday resorts in the 19th century.
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Samuel Morgan Smith
African American actor who performed in East Yorkshire in the late 1860s and mid-1870s.
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Laureen Sylvestre
Laureen's daughter Cleo tells us the story of her mother, a successful Hull-born dancer.
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