Comment on John Richard Archer – Britains first Black Mayor – 1913 by Kat Devitt - Author of Gothic Things - John Richard Archer: Pan-Africanist, Politician, and London’s First Mayor of African Descent
[…] through and with the living. In 1906, Archer was elected to the Battersea Borough Council, becoming the country’s first British-born black Councillor. In this capacity, he campaigned for council workers to receive a minimum wage of 32 shillings a […]
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[…] through and with the living. In 1906, Archer was elected to the Battersea Borough Council, becoming the country’s first British-born black Councillor. In this capacity, he campaigned for council workers to receive a minimum wage of 32 shillings a […]
