A lot of white people did not want black people.

Is their neighbors them?

Freedom of Judge Linda?

Yes.

De Asian West Indian on black British stand firm in England.

Okay.

A za Malcolm.

Is he walking on building?

Yes.

Mythic Birmingham Music Militant can't be conservative or moderate today as Angela Davis.

Yes.

Okay.

Thes thes.

Well, great movements for us at the time.

This is really our inspiration.

Black power.

What does it really means?

They're coming together.

Black people to fight for their liberation by any means necessary.

They articulated all our desires, all our dreams, all our feelings on.

That's why we were attracted to them.

There was a lot of hostility to immigrants and immigration.

Some organizations would like to see all colored people sent back to their home countries.

Keep Britain, Britain, keep it white as it should be.

Even when I went to school, you would hear it in the classroom.

Miss Miss, this isn't fair.

While all these immigrants coming here, they're coming to take my dad's job etcetera.

There won't be enough houses and jobs to go around.

What person should have known houses first.

My mother was English and I was surrounded really by white people, so I was quite isolated and lonely.

I came to Britain on a scholarship toe.

Cambridge University.

It was when I came to London looking for a room to stay, that I suddenly got a jolt.

They really did say We don't want you here.

A lot of white people did not want black people is their neighbors and they certainly didn't want them in the houses.

Apart from facing this kind of racism from landlords, one would goto pubs.

They would pretend that you were not there, that you were invisible person.

Serious clashes between the police and immigrants highlighting the growing conflict between the two up and down the country.

The policing of black communities was very, very brutal.

We, as we grew up, began to resist.

Um, want better for ourselves?

Ah Blackman is not given a chance to get a position where he has any sort of power.

He has not given a chance in society to play any part of it all in the where he has any authority.

There was a community spirit, a spirit of resistance, side by side with poor housing, poor education, police brutality on just trying to make an existence in very, very poor circumstances.

I lived on a flat on the second floor.

Somebody threw a Molotov cocktail through the glass.

The flames were coming through.

I jumped two stories down.

That was a racial attack.

Five houses, Asian and black houses were bombed the same night.

E knew what was going on, and I wanted to be part of something.

So I joined the Black Unity and Freedom Party at weekends.

Black Panther badges, air proudly worn on the streets of London.

In 1967 there was feeling that the world was going to be changed.

The Black Panther movement spoke about who we were, why we were here.

I thought These people are sensible.

I want to join them.

This was something that we had to do.

The real revolutionary proletariat ready to fight by any means necessary for the liberation off our people.

Yes, The militancy of the Panthers was very, very attractive to us.

Their demands.

We could identify with those demands without any problem at all.

They all produced newspapers.

We would go to Brixton, stand outside the reggae shop and sell the newspapers there.

13 died.

26 were injured.

Listen, I'm ringing up to confirm about the cultures that air coming down from Huddersfield.

How Muneer coming way were active in all aspects of our communities just trying to develop and move forward the black community in this country there was a strict monitoring off by the police, especially after the mangrove demonstration.

I've never known whether, uh, filers capital myself.

But doctors how certainly had a file on him.

We are faced with a serious potential that is overwhelming intervention off blacks on the current stage of history in Britain, when we were going around, black people were still called colored.

What we did and what we change, of course, was introduced the term black on being proud.

We were not victims in British society that we were out to make our own change on.

You can see that today the movement itself has given me an optimism.

I don't think the detail of the black power movement of the uh seventies on early eighties is known really by large in the population because it isn't taught in schools because it isn't part off the discussion in the media to any great extent.

So now it's our time really to say this is what we did.

This is how we did it.

And if there's anything you could learn from that, then that's good enough for us, yeah.