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Sir John Kirk (born Dec. 19, 1832, Barry, near Arbroath, Angus, Scot.—died Jan. 15, 1922, Sevenoaks, Kent, Eng.) was a Scottish physician, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and a British administrator in Zanzibar. The son of a clergyman, Kirk studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, served on the civil medical staff in the ...
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Sir John Kirk GCMG, KCB, FRS (19 December 1832 – 15 January 1922) was a British physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and a British administrator in Zanzibar, East Africa, where he was instrumental in ending the slave trade in that country, with the aid of his political assistant, Ali bin Saleh bin Nasser Al-Shaiban ...
Feb 2, 2009 · Feature. The Long Road to Equality for African-Americans. John Kirk charts the progress of the civil rights movement through its most prominent body, the NAACP. John Kirk | Published in History Today Volume 59 Issue 2 February 2009.
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Step up John Kirk. The latest biographer of John Kirk - Alastair Hazell - makes the mistake of stating that Kirk was born in Barry, in Fife, when it is actually in Angus.This is a shame because his book, The Last Slave Market, is a well-researched account of this important figure who did much personally to end the intolerable anomaly of ...
Jun 23, 2011 · The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade. Alastair Hazell. Little, Brown Book Group, Jun 23, 2011 - History - 384 pages. John Kirk was the...
Sir John Kirk (1832-1922) was born on December 19, 1832, in Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and served on the civil medical staff during the Crimean War. He was appointed in February 1858 as physician and naturalist for explorer David Livingstone's second expedition.
John Kirk. Crisis at Central High. John A. Kirk recalls the dramatic events at Little Rock, Arkansas, when a stand-off over the granting of black students access to integrated education brought the civil rights agenda to international attention. The Long Road to Equality for African-Americans.
