Billy Strachan
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William Arthur Watkin Strachan (16 April 1921 – 26 April 1998) was a leading British communist, black civil rights pioneer, charity worker, and British legal expert, most famous for both his wartime achievements with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II, and his reputation as a highly influential figure within Britain's black communities. During WWII, Strachan survived 33 bombing operations against Nazi Germany. After the war he became a communist and a human rights activist, campaigning for universal suffrage and worker's rights. Between 1952 and 1956 he published the newspaper Caribbean News, the first monthly Black British newspaper.
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Billy Strachan
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Billy Strachan
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Billy Strachan
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1998-04-26
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Kingston, Jamaica
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1921-04-16
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1921-04-16
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William Arthur Watkin Strachan
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1998-04-26
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Communist activism.
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Human rights activism.
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Numerous military achievements during WWII.
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Jamaican
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Caribbean News
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Civil servant, RAF bomber pilot, newspaper publisher, Chief Clerk of Courts
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Caribbean Labour Congress.
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Movement for Colonial Freedom.
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William Arthur Watkin Strachan (16 April 1921 – 26 April 1998) was a leading British communist, black civil rights pioneer, charity worker, and British legal expert, most famous for both his wartime achievements with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II, and his reputation as a highly influential figure within Britain's black communities. During WWII, Strachan survived 33 bombing operations against Nazi Germany. After the war he became a communist and a human rights activist, campaigning for universal suffrage and worker's rights. Between 1952 and 1956 he published the newspaper Caribbean News, the first monthly Black British newspaper. Strachan acted as a mentor to many leading British black civil rights activists, including Trevor Carter and Dorothy Kuya. Strachan was also a leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Billy Strachan is widely recognised by numerous historians, activists, and academics as one of the most influential and widely respected black civil rights figures in British-Caribbean history, and a pioneer of black civil rights in Britain.
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William Arthur Watkin Strachan
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1921
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1998