Black History Month: Black and brilliant Mancs making history today
From Arthur Lewis, the Nobel prize-winning economist, to the ordinary people who Quaker abolitionist Thomas Clarkson spotted in the crowd at the first-ever anti-slavery public meeting, back in 1787 at Manchester Cathedral, black Mancunians have made history.October each year is Black History Month, a time when a light is shone on the contributions of those whose stories have been neglected by history, because of the colour of their skin. In previous years, the M.E.N. has looked at the lives of people like Len Johnson, the Clayton-born boxer and political activist who attended the Fifth Pan-African Conference, which would shape the independence movements of the last century, Louise Da-Cocodia, the nurse and campaigner who fought for the