Article Olive Morris: The Black feminist icon and ‘rabble rouser’ whose life was tragically cut short
Article Olive Morris: The Black feminist icon and ‘rabble rouser’ whose life was tragically cut short
Oct 11 2025, 11:21 AM
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Quote:However, while she dedicated her life to many causes, Olive was perhaps best known for advancing the Black feminist movement in Britain.
She and others founded the Brixton Black Women’s Group, and later went on to set up the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD).
Faced with male-dominated Black liberation groups, predominantly white feminist organisations, and middle-class left-wing groups, Black women needed their own movement.
‘For too long the fact that as Black women we suffer triple oppression has been ignored,’ an issue of feminist magazine Spare Rib explained in June 1979.
It added: ‘The continual lack of interest in the situation of Black women created a vicious circle, so that many of us who wanted to speak out were reluctant to do so. But by contacting each other and working together, we have now broken this circle.’
https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/04/olive-morris-black-feminist-icon-rabble-rouser-whose-life-tragically-cut-short-24321753/
https://archive.ph/2C88e
Quote:However, while she dedicated her life to many causes, Olive was perhaps best known for advancing the Black feminist movement in Britain.
She and others founded the Brixton Black Women’s Group, and later went on to set up the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD).
Faced with male-dominated Black liberation groups, predominantly white feminist organisations, and middle-class left-wing groups, Black women needed their own movement.
‘For too long the fact that as Black women we suffer triple oppression has been ignored,’ an issue of feminist magazine Spare Rib explained in June 1979.
It added: ‘The continual lack of interest in the situation of Black women created a vicious circle, so that many of us who wanted to speak out were reluctant to do so. But by contacting each other and working together, we have now broken this circle.’
