A group from the Green Brigade have placed alternative street names across Glasgow city centre as part of the Black Lives Matter campaign.
The colonial past of the city is recognised in Buchanan Street, Ingram Street, Wilson Street and Glassford Street when Glasgow was ‘the second city of the empire’. Buchanan Street has been renamed George Floyd Street.
The slave trade fed into the tobacco industry which helped the growth of the city during the 1800’s.
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Glasgow has a history for dealing with racism, in 1986 St George’s Place which housed the South African Consulate was renamed as Nelson Mandela in honour of the then imprisoned anti-apartheid campaigner.
The action was widely criticised by the UK’s Conservative Government who later embraced Mandela after he had been released from prison and voted in as South African President.
