Hello, you're listening to We Are History with me, Angela Barnes.

And me, John O'Farrell.

Another one down the, down the wire as we enter our 50th year in lockdown.

It does feel a bit like that, doesn't it?

It really does. Angela, you're leading

on this one today. What are we talking about? I am. Okay. Well, today we are talking about,

largely about a gentleman called Harold Moody. I don't know if you've heard of Harold Moody, John.

Well, I mean, I know you have, because hopefully you've done your research, but it is a good name.

So to broaden it out a little bit, or to explain who Harold Moody is, he was instrumental in the first civil rights movement in Britain.

So we'll come on to that more later.

When you say civil rights, you mean in terms of black people, not like the chartists.

So yeah, in terms of race equality.

No, no, we're not going that far back.

Even I'm not going that far back as a background to this one.

So I think what we thought we'd look at is obviously we should place this where we are in time.

The Black Lives Matter movement is, you know, in full swing at the moment.

Yeah.

And there's a lot of black history that we were never taught at school, particularly our age.

I believe it's slightly different if you're at school now but we weren't taught anything no when

i was at school and i think a lot of people and we've spoken about this before on the episode we did

on equiano yeah um a little while ago but we've spoken about how a lot of people or the the sort

of overriding feeling is that black people arrives on the wind rush yes and that was that you know and it's a very late 20th century yeah the other thing that happens i i mean i'm like you i didn't get taught black history at school but my kids were taught taught a bit of black history but it tended to be uh american led and so it would be martin luther king and and Rosa Parks and interesting though that is and

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