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Remembering black icon Olive Morris
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SUNDAY July 12 is the 41st anniversary of our remembrance of Olive Elaine Morris, Brixton’s iconic ’70s black British activist.
Morris was born on June 26 1952, and arrived in Britain aged nine.
She grew up in an increasing hostile atmosphere of racism and violence, from police SUS laws and legitimised brutality, organised National Front groups, systematic discrimination with black youth unemployment at 70 per cent, housing deprivation and an education system that branded black children from the Windrush generation as “educationally subnormal.”
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