Google Doodle - representing Olive Morris

Activist Olive Morris has become the latest Google Doodle for her 68th birthday.

Google Doodle representing Olive Morris

Activist Olive Morris has become the latest Google Doodle for her 68th birthday.

Morris, who died of cancer at the age of 27, campaigned for racial equality, gender equality, and squatters rights.

She led protests and demonstrations, and helped found the Brixton Black Women group in 1973, one of Britain's first networks of black women.

Google Doodles are changes made to the company logo to celebrate events, anniversaries, and VIPs.

Then it features a one-day temporary design on the Google homepage.

The last photo shows a mural of Morris's face on the side of a building on Railton Road in Lambeth, south London.

So who was the woman on the wall?

Olive Morris was born in Jamaica in 1953 and moved to London with her family when she was nine years old.

When she was sixteen years old, she became involved in an incident in which the police tried to arrest a diplomat from Nigeria who had stopped his Mercedes on the Atlantic Road in Brixton to buy some records.

"The police officers, believing that the diplomat stole the car, started, according to witnesses, to arrest and beat him," said historian Angelina Osborne of the Fawcett Association, a charity that fights for gender equality and women's rights.

"The olives advanced and tried physically to prevent the police from attacking the diplomat, which pushed the police into her heart, arrested, assaulted, and kicked her in the chest."

"This young girl, barely 5 feet 2 in, confronted racist police officers, without thinking about her safety, because she could not stand and allow injustice to arrest an African man for driving a beautiful car.

"This was an early incident of Olive's commitment to challenging oppression."

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, this quarrel led to physical assault and racial abuse by Morris by the police and his arrest, along with six other people, with a £ 10 fine and a three-month suspended prison sentence.

Morris went to Lavender Hill Elementary School and Dick Shepherd School in Tulles Hill and became involved in the British Black Panther movement in the late 1960s.

Inspired by - but not affiliated with - the American Black Panther Party, British Black Panther has had a mission to advance self-determination and challenge the British state.

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121 squats constructed Railton Road in 1973 which served as a center of local activity until 1999, when squatters lost a lawsuit against the Lambeth Council. She co-founded the Brixton Black Women group in 1974.

During her school years at the University of Manchester (1975-1978), Morris also participated in community struggles in Moss Side, which contributed to shaping mutual assistance for black women and Manchester's cooperation for black women.

Then she worked at the Brixton Law Center.

She passed away at the age of 27 and was buried in Stretham Valley Cemetery.

In 2009, she was chosen by popular vote as one of the historical figures to appear on the local currency, Brixton Pound. In 2011, the Olive Morris Memorial Award was awarded to give grants to young black women.

"Olivi's activity happened 50 years ago. I hope real and positive change will occur in our current context, and that Oliv will be remembered as a vital influence in this ongoing battle for equality and justice for all," said Matt Cruickshank, who designed the Google Doodle.

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