Meet the Black feminist icon and ‘rabble rouser’ whose life was tragically cut short
Meet the Black feminist icon and ‘rabble rouser’ whose life was tragically cut short
By James Hockaday
Olive Morris was not the sort of person to shy away from confrontation.
‘She spoke her mind, you couldn’t mess with Olive. If she didn’t like something, then you would know,’ her friend Danny DaCosta once said.
Olive’s instinct to fight injustice was laid bare on November 15, 1969, when she intervened during the arrest of Clement Gomwalk, a Nigerian diplomat accused of stealing his own car.
As she walked towards Desmond’s Hip City in Brixton – one of London’s first Black-owned record stores – she noticed a crowd of people surrounding a white Mercedes and police van.
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By James Hockaday
Olive Morris was not the sort of person to shy away from confrontation.
‘She spoke her mind, you couldn’t mess with Olive. If she didn’t like something, then you would know,’ her friend Danny DaCosta once said.
Olive’s instinct to fight injustice was laid bare on November 15, 1969, when she intervened during the arrest of Clement Gomwalk, a Nigerian diplomat accused of stealing his own car.
As she walked towards Desmond’s Hip City in Brixton – one of London’s first Black-owned record stores – she noticed a crowd of people surrounding a white Mercedes and police van.
READ MORE: Meet the Black feminist icon and ‘rabble rouser’ whose life was tragically cut short https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/28/olive-morri...
