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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

7465

Title

THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, MR ERNEST MARKE [PART TWO]

Producer

WFA

Date

1982

Gauge

U-matic LB

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

5 mins 00 secs

Description

The final minutes of Mr Marke's presentation about his life on coming to England from Sierra Leone in 1917 when he was 14 years old believing Britain was the motherland. He talks about family life and particularly the relationship between black men and white women because his second wife was a Yorkshire woman.

[Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]

 

 



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