The louder I will sing with Lee Lawrence #BHM21

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Lee Lawrence photo by Smoking Monkey
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Location: Carnegie Library
Cost: Free Neighbourhood: Kennington

What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for?

On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence's mother Cherry Groce was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine and she never walked again. In the chaos that followed, 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the News falsely pronounced his mother dead. In Brixton, already a powder keg because of the deep racism that the community was experiencing, it was the spark needed to trigger two days of rioting that saw buildings brought down by petrol bombs, cars torched, and shops looted.

But for Lee, it was a spark that lit a flame that would burn for the next 30 years as he fought to get the police to recognise their wrongdoing. His life had changed forever.Join Lee to discuss his award-winning biography and the event that changed Brixton forever. 

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192 Herne Hill Road
London
SE24 0DG
United Kingdom

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Contact name: Zoey Dixon
Contact job title: Community Hub Library Manager: Carnegie, Minet, Upper Norwood and Waterloo Libraries Development Librarian: Information, Digital and Channel Shift
Contact phone: 020 7926 6050
Enquiries email: CarnegieLibrary@lambeth.gov.uk