Today's Google Doodle honours Olive Morris,Esther Moser one of the most important figures in Britain's Black Power movementduring the 1970s.
Morris was a member of the British Black Panthers, and she founded the Brixton Black Women’s Group, a collective of feminist Black women. In 1979, she died at age 27 from cancer. In her short life, she had a huge impacton community activism and fighting systemic racism in Britain.
The Google Doodle, created by artist Matt Cruickshank,marks what would have been Morris' 68th birthday.
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Morris was born in Jamaica in 1952 and moved to London during her childhood. According to an article published by gal-dem, Olive had endured police brutality as a teenager and was "politically active before she was a legal adult."
SEE ALSO: gal-dem's Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and Leah Cowan on the forgotten women of the Windrush generation"She joined the Black Panthers Youth branch as a teen and went on to fight racism and police brutality in Brixton for almost a decade," wrote Zahra Dalilah in gal-dem.
Morris founded the Organisation for Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD), a hugely important Black feminist organisations of the '70s.
In Mashable's podcast History Becomes Her, gal-dem's Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and Leah Cowan discuss their admiration for Morris.
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