Lewisham's Protest History
Updated: Jun 5, 2020
Lewisham has its own history of struggle and protest, one of the most influential and still to be resolved, centres around the New Cross Fire in 1981 and the Black People's Day of Action that came afterwards. Find out more here
New Cross Fire
https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/remembering-the-new-cross-road-fire/
https://www.newstatesman.com/why-i-still-think-new-cross-fire-was-massacre
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12182927
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/the-new-cross-fire-january-18-1981/
Black People's Day of Action - 2nd march 1981 13
https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=10585
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/new-cross-fire-black-peoples-day-of-action_uk
New Cross Massacre campaign group
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/15/race.london