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Majbritt Morrison
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In 1955, as a 22-year-old student, she went to the United Kingdom.
The following day on Saturday, 30 August 1958, while leaving a blues dance, she was seen by a gang of white youths the following day who remembered her. They followed her, throwing milk bottles and hurling racist abuse. One of the slurs that was thrown at her was "Black man"s trollop".
She was also hit in the back with an iron bar and somebody from the mob called out: "Kill her!"
While standing her ground, she was ordered by the police to go inside.
She refused, and she was arrested. Meanwhile the mob carried on down the road, smashing windows and would have attacked a house party that was organized by Count Suckle who was one of the first sound system operators in Great Britain.
She was scheduled to have a hearing at the Tower Hill Court a few days from then He also managed a club in Swiss Cottage during the 1970s.
Her book Jungle West 11 was first published in the United Kingdom by Tandem Books in 1964.
This was her account of the events relating to the Notting Hill Riots.
