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He was the only black child in his secondary school in London.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIn the 1960s, people in Bristol set up an organisation to fight discrimination, including the Bristol Bus Company not employing black people.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EPaul Stephenson was inspired by American civil rights activists (including Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks) hold a boycott: people protesting by refusing to use the buses.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe became the spokesperson for the boycott. Later that year, the bus company let black people work on buses.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe continued to stand up against racism throughout his life.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Mangrove Nine (Barbara Beese, Rupert Boyce, Frank Crichlow, Rhodan Gordon, Darcus Howe, Anthony Innis, Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Rothwell Kentish, Godfrey Millett) \u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThey were a group of black activists who were arrested for encouraging a riot at a protest in 1970. The protest was against the police unfairly targeting a restaurant that was important for the black community.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETheir trial lasted 55 days and they challenged the legal process, including by asking for people in the jury to be black.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETheir trial was the first time a judge said there was racial prejudice in the Metropolitan Police.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe Mangrove Nine inspired other civil rights activists to take on the legal system and led to the government changing the way they put juries together.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESkepta\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe was born in London in 1982 and is a British rapper, songwriter and record producer\u2013 his parents are Nigerian.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIn an interview, he talked about being at school and said that the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican and he used to try to say his Yoruba surname before the teacher got it wrong.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ELater, his lyrics said things like \u2018I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars\u2019 \u2013 he was talking about confidence and fighting back.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDarcus Howe \u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1943 and moved to England when he was 18.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe was a member of the\u003Cstrong\u003E Mangrove Nine\u003C/strong\u003E in 1970.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIn 1981, he organised a black People\u2019s Day of Action where 20,000 people marched across London to try to get justice for 13 young black people who\u2019d died in a fire.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe was also a chairman of the Notting Hill Carnival and a television broadcaster.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Lawrence \u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe was born in London in 1974 \u2013\u00A0his Jamaican parents came to London in the 1960s.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWhen he was 18, he was at college and he wanted to be an architect.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe was killed by a gang of five or six white young people in a racist attack in 1993.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EA few years later, a report found that the police investigation had made lots of mistakes and that the Metropolitan Police were \u2018institutionally racist\u2019, which means that racist attitudes and beliefs were seen as normal in the police and they affected how the police investigated Stephen\u2019s murder.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe report said people needed to make changes in places like the police, the NHS, and schools to stop them being racist.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EStephen\u2019s death was a tragedy. His dad (Dr Neville Lawrence) said that his son\u2019s murder \u2018opened the country\u2019s eyes\u2019 to racism \u2013 both the attack and the way the police responded showed that there was still a lot of racism in Britain.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIn 2012, two people were found guilty of the murder.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EYou can find out more about Stephen Lawrence on \u003Ca rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 href=\u0022https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/43793772\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022Stephen Lawrence information on the BBC Newsround website\u0022\u003EBBC Newsround\u003C/a\u003E or the \u003Ca rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 href=\u0022https://stephenlawrenceday.org/stephens-story/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022Stephen\u0027s story on the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation website\u0022\u003EStephen Lawrence Day Foundation website.\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDoreen Lawrence \u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe was born in Jamaica in 1952.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHer son, Stephen Lawrence, was killed in 1993.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe spoke up when the police were racist and fought for changes to the police service.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHer campaigning led to an important report in 1999.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe also started the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, which works with young people to try to make the world a fairer place for everyone.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiane Abbott \u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe was born in London in 1953 \u2013\u00A0her parents were Jamaican.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIn 1987, she became the first black female MP and she still represents the same area of London in 2020.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe\u2019s been responsible for her party\u2019s response to things like children\u2019s health and nursing.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe also supported people form the Windrush generation who were given the right to live in Britain in the 1970s but hadn\u2019t been given any documents to prove it.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPatricia Scotland \u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe was born in Dominica in 1955.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe became a member of the House of Lords in 1997.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIn 2007, she became Attorney General: the most powerful lawyer in the country and the chief legal adviser for the Queen, parliament, and government.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe was the first woman to be the Attorney General after 700 years of men.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENicola Adams \u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe was born in West Yorkshire in 1982.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe was a professional boxer and retired with an undefeated record.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EShe won gold medals in the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics and was the first openly LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMo Farah \u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe was born in Somalia.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHe won gold medals in the 5,000m and 10,000m races in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMo Farah is a Muslim; in 2012, he observed his Ramadan fast later in the year so he didn\u2019t fast during the Olympics.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E","label":"Famous and influential black people"},{"gridType":"accordionItem","gtmId":"","gtmClass":"","body":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBlack History Month takes place every October in the UK. 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