About
British-based activist and community action leader who worked for the feminist, Black nationalist, and squatters' rights movements of the 1970s. She was a co-founder of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent, and a leading organizer of the Black Women's Movement in the UK.
Before Fame
In 1969, she tried to stop police from beating a man they were taking into custody outside of a record shop in her neighborhood. She was subsequently also beaten and arrested by the police, this would be an inciting incident for her joining the Black Panthers in 1970.
Trivia
She was recognized in a Google Doodle in the UK on what would have been her 68th birthday.
Family Life
She emigrated from Jamaica to South London when she was nine years old.
Associated With
She was recognized by The Voice magazine in a list of eight influential Black British women, alongside Diane Abbott.
