The Untold Stories of Oxford University’s Black Scholars

When:
August 8, 2015 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
2015-08-08T14:00:00+01:00
2015-08-08T15:30:00+01:00
Where:
Jesus College
Turl Street
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1
UK
Cost:
£6.00/£3.00
Contact:
Artistry

Percy Shelly, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis, all names associated with the illustrious university – but what about its Black scholars?

Black Oxford Untold Stories takes you on a 90 minutes visual and biographical journey through the history of Oxford University’s Black Scholars ,from the turn of the 20th century to present day, celebrating their contributions and legacies.
This is an opportunity for children and adults to discover some of the university’s Black scholars from the first Rhodes scholar, the first African woman to achieve a degree, to the first African to practise law in an English court and experience a new perspective to the traditional image and narrative of Oxford University.