Olive Morris posing for a photograph (4th from left) during a modelling course in February 1969. Olive was born in 1952 in Jamaica and emigrated to Britain aged nine. She attended Lavender Hill Primary School and Dick Sheppard School in Tulse Hill. She first became involved with community activism in the late 1960s as a member of the Brixton Youth Section of the British Black Panther Movement. She was the co-founder of the Brixton Black Women’s Group in 1974 and after studying at Manchester University she worked at the Brixton Law Centre. She died aged just 27 and is buried in Streatham Vale Cemetery.Part of the Olive Morris Collection, created and donated by Mike McColgan, Liz Obi and the Remembering Olive Morris Collective. Ref: IV 279\/1\/2\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Olive Morris posing for a photograph (4th from left) during a modelling course in February 1969. Olive was born in 1952 in Jamaica and emigrated to Britain aged nine. She attended Lavender Hill Primary School and Dick Sheppard School in Tulse Hill. She first became involved with community activism in the late 1960s as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,322,220,30,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1976-to-date","category-black","category-morris-olive","category-people","category-print"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n