Glasgow, UK, 6th June 2020. Activists of the Celtic FC Green Brigade (ultra-fans) have renamed streets in the Merchant City which commemorate the historical fathers of the city, who had connections with plantations and slavery, with the names of black civil rights activists and slaves, in a protest aimed at drawing attention to Glasgow's connections to slavery. Dunlop Street (named after James Dunlop, 18th century tobacco lord) renamed Joseph Knight Street after a man born in Africa and sold as a slave in Jamaica to John Wedderburn of Ballendean, Scotland. In Glasgow, Scotland, on 6 June 2020.
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Glasgow, UK, 6th June 2020. Activists of the Celtic FC Green Brigade (ultra-fans) have renamed streets in the Merchant City which commemorate the historical fathers of the city, who had connections with plantations and slavery, with the names of black civil rights activists and slaves, in a protest aimed at drawing attention to Glasgow's connections to slavery. Dunlop Street (named after James Dunlop, 18th century tobacco lord) renamed Joseph Knight Street after a man born in Africa and sold as a slave in Jamaica to John Wedderburn of Ballendean, Scotland. In Glasgow, Scotland, on 6 June 2020. Photo credit: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Alamy Live News.