Black Unity and Freedom Party

In 1970 the Black Unity and Freedom Party was formed in Britain, emerging from the Universal Coloured Peoples Association (UCPA). The UCPA had been created by Nigerian Obi Egbuna in 1967 in the wake of the visit of Trinidian-American activist Kwame Touré (Stokely Carmichael) to Britain. The year before Carmichael had transformed the civil rights movement in the US with his call for "Black Power" championing cultural pride, political independence and socio-economic empowerment.

In Manchester, the Black Unity and Freedom Party organised Saturday Schools, campaigned against police brutality and educational inequalities, organised political discussions and distributed the paper The Black Voice.

Source: Sharae Deckard "United States of America, Britain, and the Civil Rights Movement", The Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007)