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Icons: Making Mixed-Race History

Everybody need icons, we admire them for the obstacles they've overcome and the legacy they leave behind.


Barak Obama
Barak Obama
The News Statesman named him as one of ten men who could change the world and now he is on his way to the White House. more...

Dido Elizabeth Belle
Dido Elizabeth Belle
Her father was a British Royal Navy captain who later became Admiral John Lindsay and was the nephew of the Earl of Mansfield. more...

Charlie Williams photo by Shambhala
Charlie Williams
He opened the door for many other entertainers of colour to come through. Lenny Henry and Gary Wilmot both cited him as an inspiration. more...

Daley Thompson
Daley Thomson
The only athlete to break the world record four times. He held the Commonwealth,
Olympic, World, European
titles and world record. more...

Stephen Atkins Swails
When Billy Jenkinson happened upon a trunk on its way to the dump he had no idea the contents would reveal the life story of a mixed-race soldier from New York. more...

Mary Seacole
'Did these ladies shrink from accepting my aid because my blood flowed beneath a somewhat duskier skin than theirs?' more...

St Martin De Porres
How many people know there is a Patron Saint for mixed-race people? We didn't, until an Intermix member enlightened us. more...

Robert Wedderburn
'The earth cannot be justly the private property of individuals, because it was never manufactured by man.' more...

W.E.B. Du Bois
A founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. more...

Alexandre Dumas
'My father was a mulatto his father a negro, and his father a monkey. My ancestry began where yours ends!' more...

Frederick Douglass
His goals were to 'abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE. more...

Booker T Washington
He went to school in Franklin County - not as a student, but to carry books for James Burroughs' daughter. more...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Hailed as the ‘Black Mahler, his Hiawatha's Wedding Feast sold out to packed crowds at the Royal Albert Hall in the 1890's. more...

Nella Larsen
Described as one of the most sophisticated novelists to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance. more...

William Wells Brown
A former slave, he wrote the first novel, the first travel book and the first play to be published by an African American. more...

Robert Nesta Marley
Read about his mixed-race background and why Bob was known to curse the white blood that ran through his veins. more...

Phillipa Duke Shuyler
Her life is now being made into a biopic produced by Halle Berry and starring Alicia Keys, read about the child prodigy here. more...

 

 

 

 


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