Stephen Lawrence: The Case That Changed British Society
The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, and his family’s twenty-year fight for justice, exposed institutional racism in the
Category: Civil Rights & Race Relations in Britain.
The New Cross Fire and the Black People’s Day of Action
Thirteen young Black people died in a fire in New Cross, south-east London, in January 1981. The community’s response —
The Notting Hill Race Riots of 1958: When Britain Was Forced to Look in the Mirror
For three weeks in August and September 1958, white mobs attacked West Indian homes and businesses in Notting Hill. The
The Bristol Bus Boycott: How Paul Stephenson Brought the Civil Rights Movement to Britain
In 1963, the Bristol Omnibus Company refused to employ Black or Asian workers. A young community organiser named Paul Stephenson
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