Barbara Beese

Barbara Beese (born 2 January 1946) is a British activist, writer, and former member of the British Black Panthers.[1][2] She is most notable as one of the Black activists known as the Mangrove Nine, charged in 1970 with inciting a riot protesting against the police targeting of the Mangrove Restaurant in Notting Hill, west London, and ultimately acquitted.

Barbara Beese during the Mangrove Nine demonstration of 9 August 1970

Black Panthers and activism

Beese came to public attention in 1970 as one of the Mangrove Nine, who on 9 August that year marched to the police station in Notting Hill, London, to protest against police raids of the Mangrove restaurant.[3] Violent clashes between the police and the Black Panther marchers led to charges and an important trial that is said to have "changed racial justice in the UK forever".[3] Beese was one of those arrested and charged on a number of accounts, and she was found not guilty on all.[4]

She contributed to the journal Race Today on a number of topics, including education.[5]

Personal life

Beese had a relationship with fellow Black Panther Darcus Howe, with whom she had a son, Darcus Beese.[6]

See also

References
  1. Field, Paul (14 April 2017). "The Real Guerrillas". Jacobin. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  2. Qasim, Wail (11 April 2017), "Freida Pinto's casting as the only lead female character in Guerilla erases women from the history of Black Power", The Independent.
  3. Bunce, Robin; Paul Field (29 November 2010). "Mangrove Nine: the court challenge against police racism in Notting Hill". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  4. Brook, Pete (4 February 2018), "When cops raided a hip 1970s London cafe, Britain’s Black Power movement rose up: The Mangrove Nine fought the law — and the law did not win", Timeline, Medium.
  5. Paul, Warmington (2014). Black British Intellectuals and Education: Multiculturalism's Hidden History. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781317752363. OCLC 871224341.
  6. HUME, LUCY. PEOPLE OF TODAY 2017;. DEBRETT'S. ISBN 9781999767037. OCLC 1007310029.
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