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68,203. Black power: the words that can send shivers down the spine of the nervous white man. While the white man struggles with his nightmare, the black man struggles with his dream. (Black People & Racism & Miscarriages of Justice: Mangrove 9 & Oval 4 & Demonstration & Protest & Resistance) Black Power: A British Story of Resistance, BBC 2021, contemporary commentary of march
68,209. West London 1970: a group of protesters march against harassment by the police of a black-owned restaurant called The Mangrove. Black power had arrived in Britain. Young black people were fighting back against a hostile environment. They stood up to the state and they defied the brutality of the police. It was a conflict that reached the highest courts in the land. (Black People & Racism & Miscarriages of Justice: Mangrove 9 & Oval 4 & Demonstration & Protest & Resistance) ibid.
91,506. The migrants played a key role in rebuilding Britain. (Black People & Racism & Miscarriages of Justice: Mangrove 9 & Oval 4 & Demonstration & Protest & Resistance) ibid.
138,634. Kelso Cochrane, a carpenter from Antigua, was stabbed to death by a white gang one night near Notting Hill. The police denied that the killing was racially motivated and nobody was prosecuted. (Black People & Racism & Miscarriages of Justice: Mangrove 9 & Oval 4 & Demonstration & Protest & Resistance) ibid.
138,635. Even at school children were not safe from institutional racism. (Black People & Racism & Miscarriages of Justice: Mangrove 9 & Oval 4 & School & Demonstration & Protest & Resistance) ibid.
116,161. Stokely Carmichael’s visit had the Labour government so concerned that Special Branch ordered him to leave the country and he was banned from re-entering. Soon afterwards the Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, set up a secret police department specifically to monitor radical black groups in Britain. (Black People & Racism & Miscarriages of Justice: Mangrove 9 & Oval 4 & Demonstration & Protest & Resistance) ibid.
138,636. On Sunday 9th August 1970 a crowd of over 100 people gathered outside the Mangrove restaurant to show their support … ‘They [Conservatives] wanted to justify the Immigration Bill’ … For the 9 people arrested following the Mangrove Demonstration, it seemed that the whole machinery of the state was now set against them, and the idea of Black Power in Britain was being unfairly demonised. (Black People & Racism & Miscarriages of Justice: Mangrove 9 & Oval 4 & Demonstration & Protest & Resistance) ibid. activist
138,637. Oval 4: When a BBC journalist started investigating Winston’s case, it was revealed that Detective Sargeant Derek Ridgewell’s testimony was directly contradicted by eye-witnesses … ‘The only [mugging] witnesses were the anti-mugging squad themselves’ … The media’s account of Winston’s case helped him appeal and his sentence was reduced, but the judge did not overturn the criminal conviction. (Black People & Racism & Miscarriages of Justice: Mangrove 9 & Oval 4 & Demonstration & Protest & Resistance) ibid.