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London Brigade
Meet Frank Arthur Bailey, London’s first Black Firefighter
Frank Arthur Bailey is widely known as the very first Black Firefighter in England and was born in Guyana. He moved to England as a political activist in 1953, where he joined the West Indian Standing Conference (WISC), an organization that represented African-Caribbean communities in Britain. He heard about the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) while…
