Althea McNish
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Althea McNish CM FSCD was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation.
Althea Mc Nish
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The Merikins or Merikens were formerly enslaved African-Americans who fought and escaped bondage to gain their freedom and joined the Corps of Colonial Marines, fighting alongside the British against
Althea McNish
…Althea Marjorie McNish was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 15th May 1924. Her father, the writer Joseph Claude McNish, was descended from the Merikin settlers in Trinidad. She painted as a child, helped with her mother's dressmaking business by doing sketches, was a junior member of the Trinidad Arts…
A Colonial Marine in their fatigue uniform