Records of Black Cultural Archives 1833-2008
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Black Cultural Archives
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Olive Morris, activist and community leader, was born Jamaica, 1952. She moved to London in 1962. Morris established a number of black and community groups, including the Brixton Black Women's Group. She was instrumental in the formation of the Organization of Women of African and Asian Descent, a radical black women's group that was the first black women's umbrella network in Britain, and was a member of the Black Panther Party. Morris was an ardent supporter of the homeless and ca...
African People's Historial Monument Foundation
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In the early 1980s, a group of parents based in Brixton formed the African Peoples Historical Monument Foundation (UK) in order to co-ordinate the development of a Black Cultural Archives (BCA) to collect, document and disseminate the history and culture of Black people in the diaspora. Documents state that by the summer of 1982 a twelve member board of trustees was formed. In the early days, BCA was primarily concerned with educational activities. Among its founders wer...
