The children fathered by black GIs in the UK

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Hundreds of thousands of black GIs were stationed across the UK during World War Two. Many of these servicemen had relationships and some had children but, due to laws in the US at the time, black servicemen were usually refused permission to marry. Prof Lucy Bland of Anglia Ruskin University is hoping to make contact with children and grandchildren of black GIs born in the UK to shed light on an under-reported chapter of social history. She is joined by Dr Deborah Prior, who was one of those children.