Liz Obi
Elizabeth Obi is a British activist, active in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s. A friend of the black activist Olive Morris, in 2009 she helped found the Remembering Olive Collective, researching and documenting Morris's life.Life
Obi joined the British Black Panthers in 1972, and was later a member of the Brixton Black Women's Group. In 1972, along with Morris, Obi squatted at 121 Railton Road in Lambeth, above a launderette, where they resisted many eviction attempts. The first privately owned building to be successfully squatted in Lambeth, 121 Railton Road continued to be squatted until 1999, making it one of the longest squats in Brixton.
