1970s

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  • 1975 - Cliff McDaniel, a 17-year-old black schoolboy was beaten by police outside the Stationers’ Company School in Weston Park, Crouch End. The Black Parents’ Movement was formed to respond to this and other incidents of police harassment of local young black people. The BPM built up alliances with similar organisations nationally and internationally, going on to participate in campaigns involving political crises in South Africa, Grenada and Guyana.
  • 1975 - OSCAR (Organisation of Sickle Cell Anaemia Research), the first Sickle Cell Support Group was founded in Wood Green by Sickle Cell patient Dr Neville Clare
  • 1975 - Alexandra Park school teacher Mike Terry (1947-2008) became the Executive Secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. He led the organisation for two decades in its campaigning and lobbying until it was dissolved after the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994.
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  • 1979 - Rock Against Racism concert in Finsbury Park
  • 1979 - Third World Recording, record distributors established on the corner of Tottenham High Road and West Green Road. By 1983 this became reggae specialist Body Music 
  • 1979 - Haringey Black Pressure Group on Education established
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