The trial, involving members of the Panther Movement and other black activists, succeeded in fighting against police harassment of Frank Crichlow's Mangrove restaurant.
"[6] The BPM also opposed the Immigration Act 1971, defended communities against fascist violence, held civil rights demonstrations, and supported Caribbean and Palestinian liberation struggles.
[8] Headquarters, at 38 Shakespeare Road, were purchased with a donation from writer John Berger (half of his 1972 Booker Prize award for the novel G.).
[13][14] Malcolm X was visiting the UK between 1964 and 1965,[15] and Stokely Carmichael's address at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress at the Roundhouse in London in 1967, inspired many in Britain's Black power movement.
[11][26] The growth of the organisation was slow, but by the early 1970s, they were "firmly ensconced in Britain's left political culture,"[12] and there were around 3,000 members.
Top-secret documents were uncovered by Robin Bunce and Paul Field while writing their political biography of Darcus Howe.
[29] Robin Bunce, a biographer of Howe, said: "He basically turned it into a trial of the Police.... His defence appealed to Magna Carta, and the media loved it because it was rooted in English traditions of fair play, but was also enormously radical and subversively funny.
A 2013 project by Brixton arts organisation Photofusion conducted oral histories interviews with a number of members and held an exhibition of Kenlock's photographs of the BPM curated by young people.
[36] A television drama miniseries, Guerrilla (2017), explores the British Black Panthers movement in the early 1970s.
[37] There has also been some controversy over Freida Pinto's casting as a female lead, which has been defended as historically appropriate by early British Black Panther members, Farrukh Dhondy and Neil Kenlock, noting the central role of British Asians in the movement, including Asian women such as Mala Sen, who inspired Pinto's character.