Quaker library hosts Black Lives Matter event
The library at Friends House hosted an ‘inspiring day of discussion, learning and sharing’ last month
The library at Friends House in London hosted the George Padmore Institute (GPI) last month as part of the Black Lives Matter UK’s Festival of Collective Liberation 2025. Over forty items from GPI’s collections were on view, including a flyer published by the Black Panther Movement publicising the National Conference on the Rights of Black People in Britain (22-23 May 1971) in Alexandra Palace, north London. There was also a Black Parents Movement leaflet called ‘Sanction South Africa’ urging people to refuse to buy South African goods during the height of apartheid, from September 1985. On display, too, was a Steve Biko Youth Organisation flyer promoting, in unity with the Black People’s Day of Action, ‘a show to mobilise’ event collecting £1 donations for the New Cross Massacre Fire Fund. These funds went towards the funeral costs for the thirteen young people lost in the fire on 26 February 1981.
