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Altab Ali
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'''Altab Ali''' (1953 – 4 May 1978) was a [[Bangladesh]]i textile worker who was murdered by three teenagers on [[4 May]] [[  1978]] in a racist attack as he walked home after work. His murder took place at St. Mary's Gardens by St Mary's Churchyard, and near the corner of Adler Street and [[Whitechapel Road]] in [[London]]. It provoked the mass mobilisation of the Bengali community locally and came to represent the self-organisation of the community. Ali became a symbol of resistance against racism and is associated with the struggle for human rights in defence of [[British Bangladeshi]]s. The churchyard he was murdered in was later renamed [[Altab Ali Park]] in his memory.

==Background==
Ali was a 25-year-old mechanic who had recently arrived<ref name="Being Bengali">{{cite book |last=Chakraborty|first=Mridula Nath|title=Being Bengali: At Home and in the World|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DUgsAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA178&dq=Altab+Ali+white+black&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBWoVChMIrMHJmIHtyAIVRLQUCh3SKQmg#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali%20white%20black&f=false|year=2014|publisher=[[Routledge]]|page=178|isbn=978-0415625883}}</ref> from [[Sylhet District]], [[Sylhet Division]],<ref name="Muslims in British Local Government">{{cite book |last=Tatari|first=Eren|title=Muslims in British Local Government: Representing Minority Interests in Hackney, Newham, and Tower Hamlets |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x_4QBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA116&dq=Altab+Ali+factory&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAWoVChMI_puLjrD6yAIVBF0UCh1RaQQx#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali%20factory&f=false|year=2015|publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill Academic Publishers]]|page=116|isbn=978-9004269699}}</ref> [[East Bengal]] (now [[Bangladesh]]) and lived in the [[East End of London|East End]] of [[London]].<ref name="UKIA">{{cite web |url=http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/381365.html|title=Indymedia: Altab Ali|publisher=Indymedia|date= |accessdate=19 September 2007}}</ref>

==Death==
On 4 May 1978, on [[Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, 1978|local borough election]] night and against a background of agitation by [[National Front (UK)|National Front]],<ref name="Being Bengali"/> Ali was making his way to the bus stop after finishing work<ref name="Muslims in Motion">{{cite book |last=Kibria|first=Nazli|title=Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RJeEFctj5PUC&pg=PA86&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMI-b_J9frsyAIVQrIUCh1ZJgqI#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=2011|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press  ]]|page=86|isbn=978-0813550565}}</ref> as a textile<ref name="morningstaronline">{{cite news |last=Rashid|first=Harounor|url=http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ed64-May-Day-Linking-workers-from-east-London-to-Bangladesh#.Vjt2nyucegZ|title=May Day: Linking workers from east London to Bangladesh|work= |location=London|publisher=''[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Morning Star]]''|date=1 May 2014|accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref> factory<ref name="Jud(contracted; show full)de Park]], [[Trafalgar Square]] and [[Downing Street]], to demand police protection for the Bengali community and to protest against the National Front and its campaign.<ref name="standard"/><ref name="lrb">{{cite news |last=Sandhu|first=Sukhdev|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n19/sukhdev-sandhu/come-hungry-leave-edgy|title=Come hungry, leave edgy|volume=25|number=19|work= |location=London|publisher=''[[London Review of Books]]''|date=9 October 2003|pages=10
-–13|accessdate=19 September 2007}}</ref><ref name="Racial violence in Britain">{{cite book |last=Panayi|first=Panikos|title=Racial violence in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries|year=1996|publisher=Leicester University Press|page=200|isbn=978-0-7185-1397-9}}</ref><ref name="Struggle in Babylon">{{cite book |last=Leech|first=Kenneth|title=Struggle in Babylon|year=1988|publisher=Sheldon |page=86|isbn=978-0-85969-577-0}}</ref><ref name="Vi(contracted; show full)

Altab Ali Foundation was later set up which holds the annual commemoration to all victims of racism, staged in the former St Mary's Churchyard that was renamed [[Altab Ali Park]]<ref name="eastlondonadvertiser2">{{cite news |last=Brooke|first=Mike|url=http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/altab_ali_s_racist_murder_in_whitechapel_remembered_37_years_on_1_4061835|title=Altab Ali
’'s racist murder in Whitechapel remembered 37 years on|work= |location=London|publisher=''[[Docklands and East London Advertiser|East London Advertiser]]''|date=6 May 2015|accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref> by [[Tower Hamlets Council]] in 1979.<ref name="After the Cosmopolitan?"/> Altab Ali Foundation soon became a movement against racism around the East End of London. The campaign against racism that took place after Ali's murder influenced the identification and association of the collective social and community image of British Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets.<ref name="UKIA"/>

Every year since Ali's death an annual commemoration has taken place in Whitechapel in his memory.<ref name="eastlondonadvertiser2"/><ref name="eastlondonadvertiser1">{{cite news |last=Barnett|first=Adam|url=http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/anti_racists_and_bangladeshis_mark_altab_ali_day_in_whitechapel_1_3589309|title=Anti-racists and Bangladeshis mark Altab Ali Day in Whitechapel|work= |location=London|publisher=''[[Docklands and East London Advertiser|East London Advertiser]]''|date=7 May 2014|accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[British Bangladeshi]]
*[[List of British Bangladeshis]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External Llinks==
*[http://www.sublimephotography.co.uk/eastendphotos/whitechapel/photos/big/altabali.jpg Altab Ali Park entrance]


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[[Category:1953 births]]
[[Category:1978 deaths]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi Muslims]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi expatriates in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:British people of Bangladeshi descent]]
[[Category:English murder victims]]
[[Category:People murdered in London]]
[[Category:People from Sylhet District]]
[[Category:People from Whitechapel]]
[[Category:Deaths by stabbing in England]]
[[Category:Racially motivated violence in England]]


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