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Brixton Student Strike, 1974

Brixton Student Protests, 1974
Brixton Student Protests, 1974

On 3 April 1974, 1,000 school pupils in Brixton, London, most of them Black, came out on strike in support of three Black youths who had been jailed after police attacked a crowd of people in Brockwell Park. They held a rally and march — parading past the local court, the police station, Tulse Hill School, where another 100 pupils joined them and Brockwell Park. More info here: https://transpont.blogspot.com/2010/11/brockwell-three-school-strike-in-1974.html

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