Olive Morris was born in Jamaica in 1952, and moved to London with her family aged 9. She lived most of her life in South London and was a key figure in local history (specially in Brixton) and a inspiring community leader. She was a member of the Black Panther Movement; set up Brixton Black Women's Group, was a founder member of The Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) and was central to the squatter campaigns of the 1970s. She was actively involved in grassroots politics, and was famous for her strength and for her lack of fear. She believe in and practiced direct action whenever she came across injustice, suffering innumerable arrests and constant police harassment. She spent three years in Manchester, taking a Degree in Social Sciences and during that time she co-founded with local women the Manchester Black Women's Coop and the Machester Black Women Mutual Aid Group. She was a keen traveller and visited China in 1977 as part of a delegation of Marxists students from Manchester University. She died tragically young in 1979 at age 27. There is very little publicly available information about Olive Morris, but there is an ongoing oral history project geared to publish details about her online here