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![Dorothy "Cherry" Groce in a London hospital after being shot by police [theguardian.com]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/cherryGroce.jpg)
On this day in 1985, a race riot broke out in Brixton after London Metropolitan Police shot and paralyzed Jamaican immigrant Dorothy "Cherry" Groce. She later won £500,000 in compensation from the police with no admission of liability.
Image: Dorothy "Cherry" Groce in a London hospital after being shot by police [theguardian.com]
David Walker was an American abolitionist and author who published "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" on this day in 1829, a seminal text that influenced later thinkers such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X.
Image: The photo shows the cover of David Walker's "Appeal". Text transcription: WALKER'S APPEAL IN FOUR ARTICLES; TOGETHER WITH A PREAMBLE, TO THE COLOURED CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, BUT IN PARTICULAR, AND VERY EXPRESSLY, TO THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WRITTEN IN BOSTON, STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1829.
![Logo of the Spanish Regional Association of the International Workingmen's Association [Wikipedia]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Organizations/firstInternational.png)
The International Workingmen's Association (IWA), commonly known as the First International, was founded on this day in 1864. Among its members were luminaries such as Karl Marx, Mikhail Bakunin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Louis Blanqui.
Image: Logo of the Spanish Regional Association of the International Workingmen's Association [Wikipedia]
Shankar Guha Niyogi was a Marxist Indian labor organizer who was assassinated on this day in 1991, after organizing miners in the town of Dalli Rajhara in the state of Chhattisgarh.