From: Tmcgarry
In 1970's London police are racist brutal and corrupt. The notorious Sus law (based on the 1824 Vagrancy Act) is used by police to stop, search, arrest,detain and assault young black men. Mavis Best and a group of black women from Lewisham lobbied the police and the government to scrap the sus law. It took numerous demonstrations and meetings with Government officials but within 3 years the law was scrapped. A major chapter in the Black British fight for civil rights Mavis Best has not been given the recognition she deserves