Mandela meets family of murdered Stephen Lawrence
- Title
- Mandela meets family of murdered Stephen Lawrence
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
- TX Date
- 6 May 1993
- Year of production
- 1993
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- Duration
- 00:02:59
- Description
- On a trip to the UK African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela has met the family of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence, murdered in a racist attack. ANC spokesman Navanethem Pillay reads a statement by Mandela to the press. Doreen and Neville Lawrence, the murdered boy’s parents on the meeting, lack of police action and racism; Marc Wadsworth, National Secretary of the Anti-Racist Alliance on rise in racist attacks. Steve Wright reports.
- Contributors
- Steve Wright; Navanethem Pillay; Doreen Lawrence; Neville Lawrence; Marc Wadsworth
- Keywords
- London; Interethnic relations; Homicide; Policing practice; Black peoples; Racially motivated crime; Nelson Mandela; Eltham; Stephen Lawrence
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