Liz Obi

Elizabeth Obi is a British activist, active in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s. A friend of the black activist Olive Morris, in 2009 she helped found the Remembering Olive Collective, researching and documenting Morris's life.[1][2][3]

Life

Obi joined the British Black Panthers in 1972, and was later a member of the Brixton Black Women's Group.[4] In 1972, along with Morris, Obi squatted at 121 Railton Road in Lambeth, above a launderette, where they resisted many eviction attempts. The first privately owned building to be successfully squatted in Lambeth, 121 Railton Road continued to be squatted until 1999, making it one of the longest squats in Brixton.[5]

References
  1. Cole, Anna (2016). "Twenty Years On: feminism's 'three body problem'". In Lucy Bland (ed.). Reconsidering Women's History: Twenty Years of the Women's History Network. Katharina Rowold. Routledge. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-317-57620-4.
  2. "About". Do you remember Olive Morris?. 2007-09-19. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  3. Burin, Yula; Sowinski, Ego Ahaiwe (2014). "sister to sister: developing a black British feminist archival consciousness". Feminist Review. 108 (108): 112–119. doi:10.1057/fr.2014.24. JSTOR 24571926.
  4. "Elizabeth Obi". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  5. Revolutionary women : a book of stencils. Queen of the Neighbourhood Collective. Oakland, CA: PM Press. 2010. ISBN 9781604864649. OCLC 700457644.CS1 maint: others (link)


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