Malcolm X visits Sheffield Dec 1964. A headline predicts trouble, there wasn’t any.
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The Sheffield Telegraph, now defunct, make up a story that he was hissed by 700 students. They didn’t. A petition is made against the papers misinformation.
The story in the story...
They tried to draw him into a comment about, by this time a dead Kennedy. Malcolm refuses to be baited.
I believe in the brotherhood of the human race and don’t care to know anybody who is not prepared to be my brother.
Sheffield Local Studies Library: 378.4274 SF/)
Found on one of Mitchell and Kenyon’s staged factory gate films 1901, Sheffield. This was John Brown and Co’s or Brown Atlas Works, who went on to be a part of Sheffield’s Forgemaster’s.
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Imagine the inhumanity of people ownership and that trauma be multiplied by leaving people in your will. Coming across this fragment of suffering was a difficult and important find. We know that names are important and what that might do if you don’t get to keep yours.
A water colour of an ‘ayah’ or nanny and her charge Ada Hicks, painted by Margaret Scott Gatty, 1850’s/60’s.
