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| name             = Altab Ali
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(contracted; show full)age=86 |isbn=978-0-8135-5056-5 |quote=Altab Ali was a ... garment worker who ... was making his way to a bus stop after work, on a day when local borough elections were taking place.}}</ref> at a sweatshop in [[Brick Lane]].<ref name="Being Bengali"/> He was chased along [[Brick Lane]] and stabbed to death near [[Aldgate tube station|Aldgate Station]]<ref name="East End Chronicles">{{cite book |last=Glinert|first=Ed|title=East End Chronicles|url=https://books.google.co
.ukm/books?id=R4kdCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT309&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBzgyahUKEwjF0ejOrvrIAhXJwBQKHST7Dss#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=2006|publisher=[[Routledge]]|page= |isbn=978-0141017181}}</ref> in a racially motivated attack<ref name="Education, Racism, and Reform">{{cite book |last1=Troyna |first1=Barry |last2=Carrington |first2=Bruce |year=1990 |title=Education, Racism and Reform  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k5DfVXjddHsC&pg=PA30 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |page=30 |isbn=978-0-415-03826-3}}</ref> at St. Mary's Gardens, the site of the church of [[St Mary Matfelon]]<ref name="After the Cosmopolitan?">{{cite book |last=Keith|first=Michael|title=After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism|url=https://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=vMt_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAmoVChMI-b_J9frsyAIVQrIUCh1ZJgqI#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=2005|publisher=[[Routledge]]|page=144|isbn=978-0-415-34169-1}}</ref> by St Mary's Churchyard, and the corner of Adler Street and [[Whitechapel Road]].<ref name="UKIA"/><ref name="20thcenturylondon">{{cite web |url=http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conInformationRecord.294 |title=Bang(contracted; show full)

The murder provoked a mass mobilisation of the Bengali community locally<ref name="Judaism, Christianity, and Islam">{{cite book |last=Gilman|first=Sander L.|title=Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Collaboration and Conflict in the Age of Diaspora|url=https://books.google.co
.ukm/books?id=d3AfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA171&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBWoVChMIg-vQ0ar6yAIVgrkUCh0gXgg5#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=2015|publisher=[[Hong Kong University Press]]|page=171|isbn=978-9888208272}}</ref> The protest against the murder politicised a generation of young Bengali activists<ref name="Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"/> and many Bangladeshis were drawn into political activity in the aftermath of the murder.<ref name="A People's History of London">{{cite book |last1=German|first1=Lindsey|last2=Rees|first2=John|title=A People's History of London|url=https://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=7BN6m4LSkOQC&pg=PA248&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCGoVChMI-b_J9frsyAIVQrIUCh1ZJgqI#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=1988|publisher=[[Verso Books]]|page=248|isbn=978-1844678556}}</ref> This began a movement that eventually pushed the National Front out of Whitechapel, and helped affirm Bengali identity there.<ref name="standard"/>

The [[Anti-Nazi League]] and the [[Rock Against Racism]] movement were born out of the events of 1978.<ref name="independent">{{cite news |last=Clarke|first=Hilary|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/life-on-the-lane-1157728.html|title=Altab Ali: The racist murder that mobilised the East End|work= |location= |publisher=''[[The Independent]]''|date=23 May 1998|accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref>

==Legacy==
[[File:Entrance, Altab Ali Park.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Entrance to [[Altab Ali Park]]]]
(contracted; show full)[[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]]