Today is international women’s day so I’m gonna share some important women in Black British history. Let’s go:

[Image ID: Sepia coloured photo of Mary Seacole. She has a medium complexion and she wears dress with a frilled collar. /End ID]ALT
[Image ID: Black and white photograph of Claudia Jones holding a book called Pages From a Worker's Life by William Z Foster. She wears a blazer with a zig zag patterned top. /End ID]ALT
[Image ID: Black and white photograph of Barbara Beese. She has light skin and a Black afro. /End ID]ALT
[Image ID: Black and white photograph of Olive Morris. She has dark skin and short afro textured hair and wears a shirt with a jacket. /End ID]ALT
[Image ID: Black and white photograph of Althea Jones LeCointe looking to the left showing her side profile. She has dark skin and short afro textured hair. She wears a turtleneck and a long earring on her right ear. /End ID]ALT
  1. Mary Seacole - British Jamaican nurse who self-funded her own travel to the Crimean War zone after the government refused to let her help look after injured and sick British soldiers. She set up the British Hotel and treated a range of diseases.
  2. Claudia Jones - Trinidadian activist and feminist who created Britain’s first Black newspaper, the West Indian Gazette. She also helped establish Notting Hill Carnival, a celebration of West Indian culture in London every year and one of the world’s biggest street festivals.
  3. Barbara Beese - British activist and writer. She was a member of the British Black Panthers and was one of the Mangrove Nine, tried at the Old Bailey for inciting a riot. Beese held up a pig’s head at the Mangrove Demonstration to fight against police violence from the Metropolitan Police Force.
  4. Olive Morris - Jamaican feminist and activist. She campaigned for squatter’s rights and created one of Britain’s first organisations for Black women, the Brixton Black Women’s Group. She also created a supplementary school for Black children.
  5. Althea Jones-LeCointe - Trinidadian physician and researcher. She became the leader of the Black British Panthers after Obi Egbuna’s arrest and she was a member of the Mangrove Nine along with Barbara Beese. The Mangrove Nine trial became the first acknowledgements of systemic racism in British history and the nine won the trial and got suspended sentences.

TERFS and radfems fuck off this isn’t for you this is for Black British women!