Remembering Olive Collective
Olive Morris was a key figure in Lambeth’s local history. She worked with the Black Panther movement; set up Brixton Black Women’s Group, was a founder member of The Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) and was central to the squatter campaigns of the 1970s. She died tragically young in 1979 at age 27.
The weblog http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/ was created to make a
a collective portrait of Olive Morris, bringing together the personal memories of those who knew her, and publishing online information and materials relating to her life and work. Lambeth Council has one of its main buildings named after her and yet there is very little information about Olive Morris that is publicly available, especially on the Internet.
This weblog was set up by artist Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre in collaboration with community activist Liz Obi, whose personal archive of documents relating to Olive’s life forms the core of a larger and ongoing community history project comprising sound interviews, research in archives, events, inserts in publications, and exhibitions. The weblog has been developed with support from Lambeth Archives and was launched as part of Lambeth’s Black History Month Celebrations 2007.
Ana Laura and Liz collaboration led to the formation of ROC - Remembering Olive Collective, a women’s group who work together to create public and permanent memories celebrating the life of Olive Morris. The Remembering Olive Collective (ROC) is made up of women of different ages and backgrounds. The main aim of ROC is to create public and permanent memories of Olive Morris.
We meet the first Wednesday of every month at Lambeth Women’s Project. Together we research and document the history of Olive Morris and her times, and we learn about each other and about women’s histories and why it is important that we keep them alive. Meetings include talks by women who knew Olive Morris and come to share their memories of Olive but also their own histories.
If you want to find out more, come along!
Text and Photo courtesy: http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/
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Olive Morris was a key figure in Lambeth’s local history. She worked with the Black Panther movement; set up Brixton Black Women’s Group, was a founder member of The Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) and was central to the squatter campaigns of the 1970s. She died tragically young in 1979 at age 27.
The weblog http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/ was created to make a
a collective portrait of Olive Morris, bringing together the...
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