Sailor who died in 1919 after being pursued by white mob to get headstone
A sailor who died after he was pursued by a white mob in one of the UK's worst outbreaks of racist violence is to have a permanent headstone on his grave.The headstone will be officially unveiled at a ceremony in Anfield Cemetery at 14:00 BST.The event is the result of five years of fundraising and campaigning by the Liverpool Black History Research Group in collaboration with the Liverpool Enslaved Memorial Project.
Mr Westgaph, whose own grandmother had to flee the disturbances which claimed the life of Mr Wotten, said: "People forget that Liverpool's black community was long established before Windrush." On the evening of 5 June police raided a boarding house in Upper Pitt Street, home to mainly Caribbean and West African seafarers.
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