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"'The Tottenham Three Are Innocent' t-shirt" [NMLH.2022.212]



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Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.212

Object Name
T-Shirt

Title
The Tottenham Three Are Innocent

Place
Tottenham

Events
Broadwater Riots

Date
1987-1991

Description
This is a white t-shirt with black text and an illustration of three people behind bars. Text reads: "Engin Raghip / Mark Braithwaite / Winston Silcott / The Tottenham Three are Innocent!"

The Tottenham three refers to three young Black men- Raghip, Braithwaite, and Silcott- who were convicted of murder and falsely sentenced to life imprisonment, in regards to the murder of a policeman during the Broadwater uprising or "riots". Broadwater is a council estate in Tottenham where an uprising took place on 6 October 1985, triggered by an incidence of police brutality towards two Black women - Dorothy "Cherry" Groce, who remains paralysed after being shot by the police, and Cynthia Jarrett, who died of heart failure during a police search during her home.

The young men were convicted in 1987 and the Tottenham Three Are Innocent campaign ran from 1987 to 1991, at which point their request for a retrial was accepted and the young men declared innocent after it was proved that the police had faked the evidence against them.

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