{"id":55642,"date":"2018-01-30T04:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55642"},"modified":"2018-01-30T04:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:01:34","slug":"how-battersea-gave-the-uk-its-own-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55642","title":{"rendered":"How Battersea Gave The UK ‘Its Own Barack Obama’"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Battersea Gave The UK ‘Its Own Barack Obama’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Londonist<\/a>
\n2017-03-21<\/p>\n

Will Noble<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJohn Richard Archer<\/a> began his mayoralty with a cheeky dig at his detractors<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

He has been described as Britain’s<\/a> Barack Obama<\/a>. Except John Richard Archer<\/a> was elected to power almost a century before the 44th US president. And his seat wasn’t in Washington DC<\/a>, but Battersea, London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Born in Liverpool<\/a> in 1863, Archer’s rise to political stardom was by way of being a naval man, medical student and photographer. In the early 1900s he set up a photography studio on Battersea Park Road. Ironically, it’s said he didn’t allow photographs taken of himself without consent, leading to some papers purposefully publishing dated images of him.<\/p>\n

Voted onto Battersea’s council in 1906, Archer was elected Mayor of Battersea on 10 November 1913. He won by a single vote; the margin may have been slim, but the result was monumental. (Though the first mayor in London<\/a> to be black, Archer was not the first in the UK<\/a>. That was Allen Glaser Minns<\/a> of Thetford, Norfolk<\/a>, elected in 1904.)<\/p>\n

Not everyone was pleased for Archer; during his campaign, and following his victory, he was battered with the kind of racist abuse and cockamamie<\/a> conspiracy theories that will sound familiar to those who’ve followed politics in recent years…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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